sensuels
\sɑ̃.sɥɛl\
The verdict
“sensuels” is uncommon French (frequency #52,339 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,339
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de sensuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sensuels · sensuels · French
sensuels · rank #52,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,339
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH secourisme
Nearest frequency peer: secourisme (-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 « sensuels »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sciage
sciage
47,665 corpus weight
- scoops
scoops
47,664 corpus weight
- secourisme
secourisme
47,663 corpus weight
- sensuels
sensuels
47,662 corpus weight
- septime
septime
47,660 corpus weight
- serpentine
serpentine
47,659 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sensuels » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sensuels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.sɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sensuels » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sensuels is uncommon French at frequency #52,339 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɑ̃.sɥɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de sensuel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sensuels, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sensuels, spelled S-E-N-S-U-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de sensuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sensuels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le voile introduit alors une bipolarité spatiale en spécifiant un univers du dedans, matriciel et scénique, lieu du dévoilement du corps féminin, de circulation de secrets et de fantasmes sensuels, face à un univers du dehors, infrangible, lieu de décorporéité, de croisements anonymes et atypiques, d’interactions décomplémentarisées et désunifiantes ;
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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