princip
The verdict
“princip” is uncommon French (frequency #77,816 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,816
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Principe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-princip · princip · French
princip · rank #77,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,816
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH profanée
Nearest frequency peer: profanée (+2 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 « princip »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poêlée
poêlée
22,191 corpus weight
- princip
princip
22,185 corpus weight
- profanée
profanée
22,183 corpus weight
- proserpine
proserpine
22,182 corpus weight
- protocolair…
protocolaires
22,181 corpus weight
- prove
prove
22,179 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « princip » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | princip |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « princip » en français
Rare enough to double-check
princip is uncommon French at frequency #77,816 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Principe.".
princip doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is princip, spelled P-R-I-N-C-I-P.
Definition
- 1Principe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how princip appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jag har som princip att aldrig cykla då jag druckit alkohol.
Ha för princip
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).