currency
\ˈkɜːɹ.ən.si\
The verdict
“currency” is uncommon French (frequency #68,961 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,961
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Devise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-currency · currency · French
currency · rank #68,961 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,961
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH céphalopodes
Nearest frequency peer: céphalopodes (+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 « currency »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- créationnis…
créationnisme
31,044 corpus weight
- currency
currency
31,040 corpus weight
- céphalopodes
céphalopodes
31,039 corpus weight
- Daguerre
Daguerre
31,038 corpus weight
- dagues
dagues
31,037 corpus weight
- dams
dams
31,035 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « currency » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | currency |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɜːɹ.ən.si\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « currency » en français
Rare enough to double-check
currency is uncommon French at frequency #68,961 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkɜːɹ.ən.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for currency, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is currency, spelled C-U-R-R-E-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Devise.
- 2Monnaie.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).