érectile
\e.ʁɛk.til\
The verdict
“érectile” is uncommon French (frequency #68,755 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,755
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est susceptible d’érection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erectile · érectile · French
érectile · rank #68,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,755
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éthologie
Nearest frequency peer: éthologie (+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 « érectile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- écarta
écarta
31,251 corpus weight
- échangeables
échangeables
31,250 corpus weight
- élancés
élancés
31,248 corpus weight
- érectile
érectile
31,246 corpus weight
- éthologie
éthologie
31,245 corpus weight
- œcuménisme
œcuménisme
31,242 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « érectile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | érectile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.ʁɛk.til\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « érectile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
érectile is uncommon French at frequency #68,755 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.ʁɛk.til\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est susceptible d’érection.".
érectile doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is érectile, spelled É-R-E-C-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est susceptible d’érection.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how érectile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
LA DINDE. — Semblable au mâle, à part les différences sexuelles (touffe plus petite et venant plus tard, pendeloque plus petite et non érectile, coloration moins vive, membranes charnues moins développées, et taille plus réduite).
This word in other languages
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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