adagio
\a.dad.ʒjo\
The verdict
“adagio” is uncommon French (frequency #53,732 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,732
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’un mouvement plus lent que le mouvement indiqué par andante, mais moins lent que le mouvement indiqué par largo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adagio · adagio · French
adagio · rank #53,732 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,732
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acétique
Nearest frequency peer: acétique (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « adagio »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- acidulée
acidulée
46,272 corpus weight
- acétique
acétique
46,270 corpus weight
- adagio
adagio
46,269 corpus weight
- ADC
ADC
46,268 corpus weight
- adjuger
adjuger
46,266 corpus weight
- adjugée
adjugée
46,265 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adagio » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adagio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a.dad.ʒjo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adagio » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adagio is uncommon French at frequency #53,732 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \a.dad.ʒjo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’un mouvement plus lent que le mouvement indiqué par andante, mais moins lent que le mouvement indiqué par largo.".
adagio doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is adagio, spelled A-D-A-G-I-O.
Definition
- 1D’un mouvement plus lent que le mouvement indiqué par andante, mais moins lent que le mouvement indiqué par largo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adagio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce morceau doit être joué adagio.
Ce morceau est une dérivation du thème qui, repris et transformé, sera celui de l'adagio.
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.
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