fécale
\fe.kal\
The verdict
“fécale” is uncommon French (frequency #65,178 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,178
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de fécal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fecale · fécale · French
fécale · rank #65,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,178
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH futon
Nearest frequency peer: futon (-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 « fécale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fuser
fuser
34,825 corpus weight
- futon
futon
34,824 corpus weight
- fécale
fécale
34,823 corpus weight
- fêtez
fêtez
34,822 corpus weight
- fœtal
fœtal
34,821 corpus weight
- Gafsa
Gafsa
34,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fécale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fécale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fe.kal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fécale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fécale is uncommon French at frequency #65,178 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fe.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de fécal.".
fécale doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fécale, spelled F-É-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de fécal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fécale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La défaillance fécale de l’analité fixe et désélabore la liaison souple des affects sur les chaînes de représentations.
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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