primary
\ˈpraɪ.mə.ri\
The verdict
“primary” is uncommon French (frequency #59,548 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,548
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-primary · primary · French
primary · rank #59,548 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,548
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH postulent
Nearest frequency peer: postulent (-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 « primary »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- politisée
politisée
40,457 corpus weight
- polynôme
polynôme
40,456 corpus weight
- ponant
ponant
40,455 corpus weight
- postulent
postulent
40,454 corpus weight
- primary
primary
40,453 corpus weight
- procédurale
procédurale
40,450 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « primary » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | primary |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈpraɪ.mə.ri\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « primary » en français
Rare enough to double-check
primary is uncommon French at frequency #59,548 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈpraɪ.mə.ri\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for primary in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 primary, spelled P-R-I-M-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Primaire.
- 2Le premier d'un groupe ou d'une série.
- 3Qui est placé avant d'autres.
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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