controls
\kən.ˈtɹoʊlz\
The verdict
“controls” is uncommon French (frequency #84,662 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,662
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de control.
Corpus desk
Index FR-controls · controls · French
controls · rank #84,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,662
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrefaire
Nearest frequency peer: contrefaire (-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 « controls »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- constans
constans
15,342 corpus weight
- contrefaire
contrefaire
15,341 corpus weight
- controls
controls
15,339 corpus weight
- Cornillon
Cornillon
15,337 corpus weight
- corporellem…
corporellement
15,336 corpus weight
- cota
cota
15,335 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « controls » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | controls |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kən.ˈtɹoʊlz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « controls » en français
Rare enough to double-check
controls is uncommon French at frequency #84,662 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kən.ˈtɹoʊlz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de control.".
No misspelling variants are generated for controls in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 controls, spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-L-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de control.
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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