magical
\ˈmædʒ.ɪ.kəl\
The verdict
“magical” is uncommon French (frequency #66,888 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,888
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Magique, fantastique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magical · magical · French
magical · rank #66,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,888
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maggy
Nearest frequency peer: Maggy (-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 « magical »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- légitiment
légitiment
33,116 corpus weight
- légués
légués
33,115 corpus weight
- Maggy
Maggy
33,114 corpus weight
- magical
magical
33,113 corpus weight
- magnifier
magnifier
33,112 corpus weight
- magnétiseur
magnétiseur
33,111 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « magical » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | magical |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈmædʒ.ɪ.kəl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « magical » en français
Rare enough to double-check
magical is uncommon French at frequency #66,888 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈmædʒ.ɪ.kəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Magique, fantastique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for magical in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is magical, spelled M-A-G-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Magique, fantastique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how magical appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was a magical moment.
Synonyms
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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