especially
\ɪˈspɛʃ.(ə.)li\
The verdict
“especially” is uncommon French (frequency #80,184 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,184
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécialement, surtout.
Corpus desk
Index FR-especially · especially · French
especially · rank #80,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,184
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH equitable
Nearest frequency peer: equitable (-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 « especially »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ensanglanté…
ensanglantées
19,821 corpus weight
- envahissaie…
envahissaient
19,820 corpus weight
- envisagea
envisagea
19,819 corpus weight
- equitable
equitable
19,818 corpus weight
- especially
especially
19,817 corpus weight
- essentialis…
essentialisme
19,816 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « especially » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | especially |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɪˈspɛʃ.(ə.)li\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « especially » en français
Rare enough to double-check
especially is uncommon French at frequency #80,184 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ɪˈspɛʃ.(ə.)li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécialement, surtout.".
especially has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is especially, spelled E-S-P-E-C-I-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Spécialement, surtout.
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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