hexadécimal
\ɛɡ.za.de.si.mal\
The verdict
“hexadécimal” is uncommon French (frequency #88,723 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,723
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’un système de numération comptant seize signes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hexadecimal · hexadécimal · French
hexadécimal · rank #88,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,723
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hewson
Nearest frequency peer: Hewson (-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 « hexadécimal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hertzien
hertzien
11,281 corpus weight
- heuristiques
heuristiques
11,280 corpus weight
- Hewson
Hewson
11,279 corpus weight
- hexadécimal
hexadécimal
11,278 corpus weight
- hippocampes
hippocampes
11,277 corpus weight
- historiettes
historiettes
11,276 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hexadécimal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hexadécimal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.za.de.si.mal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hexadécimal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hexadécimal is uncommon French at frequency #88,723 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛɡ.za.de.si.mal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit d’un système de numération comptant seize signes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hexadécimal, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hexadécimal, spelled H-E-X-A-D-É-C-I-M-A-L.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un système de numération comptant seize signes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hexadécimal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Finalement, la notation hexadécimale est une transcription en hexadécimal de la représentation interne du nombre (mantisse fractionnaire et exposant représentant une puissance de 2)
Pour éviter de se retrouver avec des boîtes et/ou des rayonnages complètement saturés alors que d'autres sont vides, il faut trouver un mécanisme de nommage par exemple, plutôt que de s’appeler Dupont ou Schmidt, on va associer aux noms des codes comme 1608FAF9FA et 8376F86817, ici dans un alphabet hexadécimal {0, 1, 2, …, 9, A, B, …, E, F}, mais on aurai…
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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