eternal
\ɪˈtɜː.nəl\
The verdict
“eternal” is uncommon French (frequency #56,589 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,589
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Permanent, perpétuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eternal · eternal · French
eternal · rank #56,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,589
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH everywhere
Nearest frequency peer: everywhere (+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 « eternal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Erickson
Erickson
43,415 corpus weight
- eternal
eternal
43,412 corpus weight
- everywhere
everywhere
43,411 corpus weight
- exclama
exclama
43,410 corpus weight
- exigibles
exigibles
43,409 corpus weight
- expérimente…
expérimentent
43,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « eternal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eternal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɪˈtɜː.nəl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « eternal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
eternal is uncommon French at frequency #56,589 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɪˈtɜː.nəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for eternal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is eternal, spelled E-T-E-R-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Permanent, perpétuel.
- 2Éternel.
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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