ICS
\i.se.ɛs\
The verdict
“ICS” is uncommon French (frequency #69,152 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,152
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Identifiant unique d'un créancier dans le cadre du prélèvement SEPA.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ics · ICS · French
ICS · rank #69,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,152
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hydrologiques
Nearest frequency peer: hydrologiques (-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 « ICS »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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30,852 corpus weight
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30,851 corpus weight
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30,850 corpus weight
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30,849 corpus weight
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ICS » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ICS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.se.ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ICS » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ICS is uncommon French at frequency #69,152 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.se.ɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Identifiant unique d'un créancier dans le cadre du prélèvement SEPA.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ICS in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 ICS, spelled I-C-S.
Definition
- 1Identifiant unique d'un créancier dans le cadre du prélèvement SEPA.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ICS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une transaction de prélèvement SEPA, le Créancier est identifié par son Identifiant Créancier SEPA ou ICS. Cet identifiant est attribué par la Banque de France.
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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