secundus
\se.kun.dus\
The verdict
“secundus” is uncommon French (frequency #99,631 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,631
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième orteil en partant de l’intérieur du pied chez les Primates.
Corpus desk
Index FR-secundus · secundus · French
secundus · rank #99,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,631
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Schnitzler
Nearest frequency peer: Schnitzler (-2 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 « secundus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scales
scales
374 corpus weight
- Schatz
Schatz
373 corpus weight
- Schnitzler
Schnitzler
372 corpus weight
- secundus
secundus
370 corpus weight
- Semois
Semois
367 corpus weight
- senatus
senatus
366 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « secundus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secundus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.kun.dus\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « secundus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
secundus is uncommon French at frequency #99,631 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.kun.dus\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième orteil en partant de l’intérieur du pied chez les Primates.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for secundus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is secundus, spelled S-E-C-U-N-D-U-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième orteil en partant de l’intérieur du pied chez les Primates.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how secundus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le secundus (ou deuxième) est aussi appelé depasus.
Synonyms
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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