critical
\ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kəl\
The verdict
“critical” is uncommon French (frequency #50,752 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,752
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Critique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-critical · critical · French
critical · rank #50,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,752
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crémone
Nearest frequency peer: crémone (+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 « critical »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corsa
corsa
49,254 corpus weight
- corsage
corsage
49,253 corpus weight
- courtisanes
courtisanes
49,252 corpus weight
- critical
critical
49,249 corpus weight
- crémone
crémone
49,248 corpus weight
- curatelle
curatelle
49,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « critical » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | critical |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kəl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « critical » en français
Rare enough to double-check
critical is uncommon French at frequency #50,752 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Critique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for critical in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 critical, spelled C-R-I-T-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Critique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how critical appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To remedy this, we will propose a Critical Medicines Act to reduce dependencies relating to critical medicines and ingredients, particularly for products where there are only a few supplying manufacturers or countries.
“This crash was as tragic as it was preventable,” said NTSB Chairman Jennifer Homendy. “Our investigation brought to light a critical shortage of safe truck parking and made clear a painful lesson: until we address this important safety issue, lives are at risk on our nation’s roads.”
Antonyms
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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