2nd
\sɛ.ɡɔ̃\
The verdict
“2nd” sits in 9 confusable pairs (corpus #14,837) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,837
- frequency rank, French
- 15
- “2” headwords
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Second.
Corpus desk
Index FR-2nd · 2nd · French
2nd · rank #14,837 · 0 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,837
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 15
- PHOTO-FINISH éventualité
Nearest frequency peer: éventualité (-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 « 2nd »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- éveil
éveil
85,167 corpus weight
- éveillé
éveillé
85,166 corpus weight
- éventualité
éventualité
85,165 corpus weight
- 2nd
2nd
85,164 corpus weight
- 9e
9e
85,163 corpus weight
- achèvement
achèvement
85,162 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 2nd » 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 | 2nd |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛ.ɡɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 2nd »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 2nd is neighbouring look-alikes ("2nde", "2", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \sɛ.ɡɔ̃\. Frequency #14,837 among 15 “2” headwords. Gloss: "Second.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for 2nd, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "2nde", "2", "2e", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is 2nd, spelled 2-N-D.
Definition
- 1Second.
Synonyms
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).