radicale

/\ʁa.di.kal\/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,889

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

radicale is anFrenchadj. It means: Féminin singulier de radical. Pronounced \ʁa.di.kal\. It ranks #7,889 in French word frequency. Often confused with ridicule and radicaux.

Key facts for radicale
PropertyValue
Headwordradicale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ʁa.di.kal\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,889
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of radicale in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for radicale is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.di.kal\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,889 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin singulier de radical.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for radicale, with forms such as "ardicale", "radciale", and "raddicale". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ridicule", "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 radicale, spelled R-A-D-I-C-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de radical.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ardicale,radciale,raddicale,radiacle,radicael,radicalle,radiccale,radiclae,raidcale,rdaicale,rradicale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for radicale

Misspelling Variants of "radicale"

ardicale8radciale8raddicale9radiacle8radicael8radicalle9radiccale9radiclae8
Misspelling Variants of "radicale"

Frequency rank: #7,889 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "radicale"?
"radicale" is spelled R-A-D-I-C-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.di.kal\.
What does "radicale" mean?
As an adj, "radicale" means: Féminin singulier de radical.
What words are commonly confused with "radicale"?
"radicale" is commonly confused with "ridicule", "radicaux", "radicales". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "radicale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "radicale" is \ʁa.di.kal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "radicale" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.