critics
\kɾiˈtik\
The verdict
“critics” is uncommon French (frequency #79,194 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,194
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de critic.
Corpus desk
Index FR-critics · critics · French
critics · rank #79,194 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,194
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH creep
Nearest frequency peer: creep (-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 « critics »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- craints
craints
20,810 corpus weight
- Cray
Cray
20,809 corpus weight
- creep
creep
20,808 corpus weight
- critics
critics
20,807 corpus weight
- culbuter
culbuter
20,805 corpus weight
- culpabilisa…
culpabilisant
20,804 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « critics » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | critics |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɾiˈtik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « critics » en français
Rare enough to double-check
critics is uncommon French at frequency #79,194 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɾiˈtik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de critic.".
critics doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is critics, spelled C-R-I-T-I-C-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de critic.
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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