fissile
\fi.sil\
The verdict
“fissile” is uncommon French (frequency #89,723 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,723
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Facile à fendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fissile · fissile · French
fissile · rank #89,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,723
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH firma
Nearest frequency peer: firma (-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 « fissile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Findlay
Findlay
10,281 corpus weight
- fior
fior
10,280 corpus weight
- firma
firma
10,279 corpus weight
- fissile
fissile
10,278 corpus weight
- flirtait
flirtait
10,276 corpus weight
- fluence
fluence
10,275 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fissile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fissile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fi.sil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fissile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fissile is uncommon French at frequency #89,723 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fi.sil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fissile, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fissile, spelled F-I-S-S-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Facile à fendre.
- 2susceptible de subir une fission sous l’effet d’un bombardement par des neutrons de toutes énergies, en parlant de noyau atomique
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fissile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces roches sont […] altérées […] elles deviennent plus fissiles, plus friables.
[B]ois homogène, blanc ou plus ou moins nacré, à densité élevée, très dur, peu fissile […].
Synonyms
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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