neutral
\nø.tʁal\
The verdict
“neutral” is uncommon French (frequency #75,945 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,945
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux neutres, favorable à la neutralité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-neutral · neutral · French
neutral · rank #75,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,945
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Neustadt
Nearest frequency peer: Neustadt (-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 « neutral »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nerve
nerve
24,060 corpus weight
- Nessa
Nessa
24,059 corpus weight
- nesta
nesta
24,058 corpus weight
- Neustadt
Neustadt
24,057 corpus weight
- neutral
neutral
24,056 corpus weight
- noria
noria
24,052 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « neutral » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neutral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nø.tʁal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « neutral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
neutral is uncommon French at frequency #75,945 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \nø.tʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux neutres, favorable à la neutralité.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for neutral in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is neutral, spelled N-E-U-T-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux neutres, favorable à la neutralité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how neutral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Garder une attitude neutrale.
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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