eighties
\ɛj.tiz\
The verdict
“eighties” is uncommon French (frequency #92,687 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,687
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décennie des années 1980.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eighties · eighties · French
eighties · rank #92,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,687
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH eidos
Nearest frequency peer: eidos (-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 « eighties »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- effilés
effilés
7,317 corpus weight
- effronterie
effronterie
7,316 corpus weight
- eidos
eidos
7,315 corpus weight
- eighties
eighties
7,314 corpus weight
- emballant
emballant
7,310 corpus weight
- emmenèrent
emmenèrent
7,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « eighties » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eighties |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛj.tiz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « eighties » en français
Rare enough to double-check
eighties is uncommon French at frequency #92,687 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛj.tiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Décennie des années 1980.".
Zero misspellings are on record for eighties in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is eighties, spelled E-I-G-H-T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Décennie des années 1980.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eighties appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les golden boys disent que les années folles de la finance, les eighties, n’ont pas pris fin avec l’explosion de la bulle financière de 1987 mais trois ans plus tard avec l’explosion des bulles de Perrier.
Depuis les eighties, décennie de toutes les excentricités chromatiques où les costumes bleu électrique se mariaient sans complexe aux sweat-shirts corail, la couleur avait beaucoup perdu de sa superbe.
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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