1X
\œ̃.iks\
The verdict
“1X” sits in 6 confusable pairs (corpus #33,093) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,093
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- “1” headwords
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vitesse de lecture et de gravure de disque. Elle vaut 150 ko/s pour les CD, et 1,38 Mo/s pour les DVD.
Corpus desk
Index FR-1x · 1X · French
1X · rank #33,093 · 0 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,093
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 11
- PHOTO-FINISH évacuées
Nearest frequency peer: évacuées (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « 1X »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- établissait
établissait
66,911 corpus weight
- éternelles
éternelles
66,910 corpus weight
- évacuées
évacuées
66,909 corpus weight
- 1X
1X
66,908 corpus weight
- abdominales
abdominales
66,907 corpus weight
- absurdités
absurdités
66,906 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 1X » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | 1X |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \œ̃.iks\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #33,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 1X »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 1X is neighbouring look-alikes ("1", "1e", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \œ̃.iks\. Frequency #33,093 among 11 “1” headwords. Gloss: "Vitesse de lecture et de gravure de disque. Elle vaut 150 ko/s pour les CD, et 1,38 Mo/s pour les DVD.".
1X doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "1", "1e", "1D", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is 1X, spelled 1-X.
Definition
- 1Vitesse de lecture et de gravure de disque. Elle vaut 150 ko/s pour les CD, et 1,38 Mo/s pour les DVD.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 1X appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vitesse de gravure est identique à la vitesse de lecture des lecteurs CD-ROM : 1X correspond à 150 ko/s.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.