scil.
The verdict
“scil.” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À savoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scil · scil. · French
scil. · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scil. |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “scil.” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
scil. is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "À savoir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scil., typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is scil., spelled S-C-I-L-..
Definition
- 1À savoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scil. appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On la trouve, bien formulée, chez Syrianus : « A moins que, dit-il (scil. Aristote), à cause de cette aporie ils (scil. les Platoniciens) ne fassent de l'un le moyen terme dans la triade et dans tout nombre impair, afin que les unités engendrées par le grand et les unités engendrées par le petit soient égales (scil. en nombre égal), non seulement dans le…
Les Athéniens savent bien que son ignorance (scil. celle du dirigeant démocratique), sa bassesse, sa bienveillance leur sont plus utiles que la vertu, la sagesse et l'hostilité des honnêtes gens.
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