confiscations
\kɔ̃.fis.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“confiscations” is uncommon French (frequency #73,028 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,028
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de confiscation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confiscations · confiscations · French
confiscations · rank #73,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,028
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concaves
Nearest frequency peer: concaves (-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 « confiscations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- complotent
complotent
26,975 corpus weight
- concaves
concaves
26,974 corpus weight
- confiscatio…
confiscations
26,973 corpus weight
- congélateurs
congélateurs
26,972 corpus weight
- consciencie…
consciencieuse
26,971 corpus weight
- consentez
consentez
26,970 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « confiscations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confiscations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fis.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #73,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « confiscations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
confiscations is uncommon French at frequency #73,028 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.fis.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de confiscation.".
Zero misspellings are on record for confiscations in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is confiscations, spelled C-O-N-F-I-S-C-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de confiscation.
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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