externalités
\ɛk.stɛʁ.na.li.te\
The verdict
“externalités” is uncommon French (frequency #54,576 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,576
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de externalité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-externalites · externalités · French
externalités · rank #54,576 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,576
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH expressionnis…
Nearest frequency peer: expressionnisme (-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 « externalités »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- excédés
excédés
45,428 corpus weight
- exhaustivité
exhaustivité
45,427 corpus weight
- expressionn…
expressionnisme
45,426 corpus weight
- externalités
externalités
45,425 corpus weight
- extrapoler
extrapoler
45,424 corpus weight
- fabulous
fabulous
45,423 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « externalités » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | externalités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.stɛʁ.na.li.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #54,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « externalités » en français
Rare enough to double-check
externalités is uncommon French at frequency #54,576 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.stɛʁ.na.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de externalité.".
Zero misspellings are on record for externalités in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 externalités, spelled E-X-T-E-R-N-A-L-I-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de externalité.
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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