5e
\sɛ̃.kjɛm\
The verdict
“5e” sits in 5 confusable pairs (corpus #7,022) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,022
- frequency rank, French
- 2
- letters
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cinquième (ordinal).
Corpus desk
Index FR-5e · 5e · French
5e · rank #7,022 · 0 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,022
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "5" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH évacuation
Nearest frequency peer: évacuation (-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 « 5e »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- épais
épais
92,982 corpus weight
- éteindre
éteindre
92,981 corpus weight
- évacuation
évacuation
92,980 corpus weight
- 5e
5e
92,979 corpus weight
- admet
admet
92,978 corpus weight
- agissant
agissant
92,977 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 5e » 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 | 5e |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.kjɛm\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 5e »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 5e is neighbouring look-alikes ("5G", "5s", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \sɛ̃.kjɛm\. Frequency #7,022. Gloss: "Cinquième (ordinal).".
5e has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "5G", "5s", "cinquième", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is 5e, spelled 5-E.
Definition
- 1Cinquième (ordinal).
This word in other languages
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.