modifia
\mɔ.di.fja\
The verdict
“modifia” is uncommon French (frequency #57,425 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,425
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de modifier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modifia · modifia · French
modifia · rank #57,425 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,425
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mitraillettes
Nearest frequency peer: mitraillettes (-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 « modifia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- minimisation
minimisation
42,579 corpus weight
- mitochondri…
mitochondries
42,578 corpus weight
- mitraillett…
mitraillettes
42,577 corpus weight
- modifia
modifia
42,576 corpus weight
- modifiera
modifiera
42,575 corpus weight
- mollah
mollah
42,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « modifia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modifia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔ.di.fja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « modifia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
modifia is uncommon French at frequency #57,425 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɔ.di.fja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de modifier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for modifia in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is modifia, spelled M-O-D-I-F-I-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de modifier.
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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