safer
\ˈsɛɪ̯fɐ\
The verdict
“safer” is uncommon French (frequency #64,075 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,075
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comparatif de safe, prédicat de tous les genres au singulier et au pluriel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-safer · safer · French
safer · rank #64,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,075
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sacralisation
Nearest frequency peer: sacralisation (-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 « safer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- répétiteur
répétiteur
35,930 corpus weight
- sabra
sabra
35,928 corpus weight
- sacralisati…
sacralisation
35,927 corpus weight
- safer
safer
35,926 corpus weight
- saisissantes
saisissantes
35,925 corpus weight
- saisonnalité
saisonnalité
35,924 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « safer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | safer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈsɛɪ̯fɐ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « safer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
safer is uncommon French at frequency #64,075 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈsɛɪ̯fɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for safer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct French form is safer, spelled S-A-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Comparatif de safe, prédicat de tous les genres au singulier et au pluriel.
- 2Datif féminin singulier de la déclinaison forte de safe.
- 3Génitif féminin singulier de la déclinaison forte de safe.
- 4Génitif pluriel (à tous les genres) de la déclinaison forte de safe.
- 5Nominatif masculin singulier de la déclinaison forte de safe.
- 6Nominatif masculin singulier de la déclinaison mixte de safe.
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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