selected
\sɪ.ˈlɛk.tɪd\
The verdict
“selected” is uncommon French (frequency #56,919 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,919
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit de select.
Corpus desk
Index FR-selected · selected · French
selected · rank #56,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,919
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH seigneuriaux
Nearest frequency peer: seigneuriaux (-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 « selected »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scandent
scandent
43,085 corpus weight
- SCP
SCP
43,084 corpus weight
- seigneuriaux
seigneuriaux
43,083 corpus weight
- selected
selected
43,082 corpus weight
- Sergi
Sergi
43,081 corpus weight
- Sevilla
Sevilla
43,080 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « selected » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « selected » en français
Rare enough to double-check
selected is uncommon French at frequency #56,919 among 6,032 “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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).