practical
\ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl\
The verdict
“practical” is uncommon French (frequency #84,186 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,186
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épreuve de travaux pratiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-practical · practical · French
practical · rank #84,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,186
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH preserve
Nearest frequency peer: preserve (+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 « practical »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pontier
pontier
15,819 corpus weight
- poularde
poularde
15,817 corpus weight
- practical
practical
15,815 corpus weight
- preserve
preserve
15,814 corpus weight
- preste
preste
15,813 corpus weight
- proa
proa
15,811 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « practical » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | practical |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « practical » en français
Rare enough to double-check
practical is uncommon French at frequency #84,186 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Épreuve de travaux pratiques.".
Zero misspellings are on record for practical in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is practical, spelled P-R-A-C-T-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Épreuve de travaux pratiques.
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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