egal
\eˈɡaːl\
The verdict
“egal” is uncommon French (frequency #63,709 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,709
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Égal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-egal · egal · French
egal · rank #63,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,709
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effrontée
Nearest frequency peer: effrontée (-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 « egal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- effectuez
effectuez
36,295 corpus weight
- efforçait
efforçait
36,294 corpus weight
- effrontée
effrontée
36,293 corpus weight
- egal
egal
36,292 corpus weight
- Elke
Elke
36,290 corpus weight
- eller
eller
36,289 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « egal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | egal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \eˈɡaːl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « egal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
egal is uncommon French at frequency #63,709 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \eˈɡaːl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Égal.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for egal, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 egal, spelled E-G-A-L.
Definition
- 1Égal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how egal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das ist mir so was von egal!
Das ist ja egal.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).