radical
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,017
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
radical is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui vise à agir sur la cause profonde des effets qu’on veut modifier. Pronounced \ʁa.di.kal\. It ranks #6,017 in French word frequency. Often confused with radicale and radicaux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radical |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʁa.di.kal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for radical is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.di.kal\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,017 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for radical, with forms such as "ardical", "radcial", and "raddical". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "radicale", "radicaux", "radicales", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is radical, spelled R-A-D-I-C-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui vise à agir sur la cause profonde des effets qu’on veut modifier.
- 2Ce qui a rapport au principe d’une chose, à son essence.
- 3Fondamental.
- 4Qui fait table rase du passé, qui révolutionne.
- 5Qui est absolu, qui va jusqu’au bout de ses opinions.
- 6Qui est sans nuances.
- 7Qui préconise l’application intégrale de certains principes ou qui veut les faire appliquer à tous les aspects de la vie sociale et politique.
- 8Relatif à un mouvement politique de centre-gauche.
- 9En rapport avec la racine du mot.
- 10En rapport avec une racine, carrée ou d'ordre plus grand, d’un nombre.
- 11Relatif à la racine ; qui s'attache à la racine ; qui ressemble à une racine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ardical,radcial,raddical,radiacl,radicall,radiccal,radicla,raidcal,rdaical,rradical
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for radical
Misspelling Variants of "radical"
Frequency rank: #6,017 in French
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