selected
\sɪ.ˈlɛk.tɪd\
The verdict
“selected” is uncommon French (frequency #56,919 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,919
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Prétérit de select.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | selected |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɪ.ˈlɛk.tɪd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “selected” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
selected is uncommon French at frequency #56,919 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɪ.ˈlɛk.tɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for selected, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is selected, spelled S-E-L-E-C-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit de select.
- 2Participe passé de select.
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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Using “selected”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E-L-E-C-T-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɪ.ˈlɛk.tɪd\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.