external
\ɛksˈtɜː.nəl\
The verdict
“external” is uncommon French (frequency #73,986 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,986
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À l'extérieur, externe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-external · external · French
external · rank #73,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,986
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH extensibles
Nearest frequency peer: extensibles (-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 « external »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- expulsant
expulsant
26,018 corpus weight
- expérimenta…
expérimentant
26,017 corpus weight
- extensibles
extensibles
26,016 corpus weight
- external
external
26,015 corpus weight
- fad
fad
26,014 corpus weight
- Falkland
Falkland
26,013 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « external » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | external |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛksˈtɜː.nəl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « external » en français
Rare enough to double-check
external is uncommon French at frequency #73,986 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛksˈtɜː.nəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "À l'extérieur, externe.".
external doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is external, spelled E-X-T-E-R-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1À l'extérieur, externe.
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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