cervical
\sɛʁ.vi.kal\
The verdict
“cervical” is uncommon French (frequency #57,157 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,157
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à la nuque, à la partie postérieure du cou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cervical · cervical · French
cervical · rank #57,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,157
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH centaures
Nearest frequency peer: centaures (-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 « cervical »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- castelli
castelli
42,849 corpus weight
- centaures
centaures
42,845 corpus weight
- cervical
cervical
42,844 corpus weight
- challengers
challengers
42,843 corpus weight
- Chaptal
Chaptal
42,842 corpus weight
- chauffante
chauffante
42,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cervical » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cervical |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vi.kal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cervical » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cervical is uncommon French at frequency #57,157 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɛʁ.vi.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cervical doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cervical, spelled C-E-R-V-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à la nuque, à la partie postérieure du cou.
- 2Relatif à une région du corps appelée col, par exemple le col de l’utérus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cervical appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La racine orthosympathique provient du plexus artériel péri-ophtalmique, lui-même des ganglions cervicaux par l’intermédiaire des fibres péricarotidiennes.
Les influx provenant des ganglions latéro-vertébraux cervicaux forment des fibres péri-carotidiennes et enfin péri-ophtalmiques autour des artères du même nom (figure 4.13).
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).