secret
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,239
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
secret is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’est connu que d’une personne ou de fort peu de gens ; que l’on tient caché, dont on dérobe la connaissance aux autres. Pronounced \sə.kʁɛ\. It ranks #1,239 in French word frequency. Often confused with sert and sect.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \sə.kʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for secret is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.kʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,239 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for secret, with forms such as "escret", "sceret", and "seccret". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sert", "sect", "sucre", 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 secret, spelled S-E-C-R-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est connu que d’une personne ou de fort peu de gens ; que l’on tient caché, dont on dérobe la connaissance aux autres.
- 2Qualifiait les doctrines et pratiques occultes telles que l’astrologie, la magie, la nécromancie, etc.
- 3Qualifie un accès dérobé.
- 4Qualifie les fonds dont un gouvernement use sans être tenu d’en rendre compte.
- 5Qualifie les personnes qui savent se taire et tenir une chose secrète.
- 6Qualité d’un chien qui n’aboie pas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: escret,sceret,seccret,secert,secrett,secrret,secrte,sercet,ssecret
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for secret
Misspelling Variants of "secret"
Frequency rank: #1,239 in French
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