formal
\fɔʁ.mal\
The verdict
“formal” is uncommon French (frequency #83,888 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,888
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corps obtenu par l’action de l’acide sulfurique étendu de peroxyde de manganèse sur l’esprit de bois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formal · formal · French
formal · rank #83,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,888
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forçais
Nearest frequency peer: forçais (+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 « formal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flos
flos
16,116 corpus weight
- fob
fob
16,115 corpus weight
- formal
formal
16,113 corpus weight
- forçais
forçais
16,112 corpus weight
- fossilisé
fossilisé
16,111 corpus weight
- Fourmies
Fourmies
16,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « formal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.mal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « formal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
formal is uncommon French at frequency #83,888 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔʁ.mal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Corps obtenu par l’action de l’acide sulfurique étendu de peroxyde de manganèse sur l’esprit de bois.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for formal, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 formal, spelled F-O-R-M-A-L.
Definition
- 1Corps obtenu par l’action de l’acide sulfurique étendu de peroxyde de manganèse sur l’esprit de bois.
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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