classico
\klɑ.si.ko\
The verdict
“classico” is uncommon French (frequency #60,645 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,645
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En football, une rencontre qui est un classique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-classico · classico · French
classico · rank #60,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,645
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH civilisées
Nearest frequency peer: civilisées (-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 « classico »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chronographe
chronographe
39,361 corpus weight
- cisterciens
cisterciens
39,358 corpus weight
- civilisées
civilisées
39,357 corpus weight
- classico
classico
39,356 corpus weight
- cléricale
cléricale
39,354 corpus weight
- CMI
CMI
39,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « classico » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | classico |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɑ.si.ko\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « classico » en français
Rare enough to double-check
classico is uncommon French at frequency #60,645 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɑ.si.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for classico in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is classico, spelled C-L-A-S-S-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1En football, une rencontre qui est un classique.
- 2Rencontre devenue classique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how classico appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans oublier le « classico » Graulhet-Lavaur de tous les dangers.
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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