fœtal
\fe.tal\
The verdict
“fœtal” is an uncommon French word, ranked #65,180 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #65,180
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui a rapport au fœtus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fœtal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fe.tal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fœtal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fœtal is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fe.tal\. Corpus data places it at rank #65,180 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui a rapport au fœtus.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fœtal in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fœtal, spelled F-Œ-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport au fœtus.
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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Using “fœtal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-Œ-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fe.tal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.