edgy
\ˈɛdʒ.i\
The verdict
“edgy” is uncommon French (frequency #76,527 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,527
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Énervé, crispé, à cran.
Corpus desk
Index FR-edgy · edgy · French
edgy · rank #76,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,527
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Einaudi
Nearest frequency peer: Einaudi (+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 « edgy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dévalorise
dévalorise
23,478 corpus weight
- dévergondée
dévergondée
23,477 corpus weight
- déversée
déversée
23,476 corpus weight
- edgy
edgy
23,474 corpus weight
- Einaudi
Einaudi
23,473 corpus weight
- emport
emport
23,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « edgy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | edgy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈɛdʒ.i\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « edgy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
edgy is uncommon French at frequency #76,527 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈɛdʒ.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
edgy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is edgy, spelled E-D-G-Y.
Definition
- 1Énervé, crispé, à cran.
- 2Avant-gardiste.
- 3Provocatif et à la limite d’être acceptable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how edgy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Edgy comments.
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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