antiviral
\ɑ̃.ti.vi.ʁal\
The verdict
“antiviral” is uncommon French (frequency #76,312 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,312
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux antiviraux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-antiviral · antiviral · French
antiviral · rank #76,312 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,312
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anticonformis…
Nearest frequency peer: anticonformiste (-2 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 « antiviral »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- annoncions
annoncions
23,694 corpus weight
- anthères
anthères
23,693 corpus weight
- antiaérienne
antiaérienne
23,692 corpus weight
- anticonform…
anticonformiste
23,691 corpus weight
- antiviral
antiviral
23,689 corpus weight
- apologistes
apologistes
23,686 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « antiviral » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antiviral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ti.vi.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « antiviral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
antiviral is uncommon French at frequency #76,312 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.ti.vi.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux antiviraux.".
Zero misspellings are on record for antiviral in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is antiviral, spelled A-N-T-I-V-I-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux antiviraux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how antiviral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plupart des huiles essentielles sont anti-bactériennes, antifongiques, antivirales, anti-inflammatoires et antioxydantes.
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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