sextoy
\sɛks.tɔj\
The verdict
“sextoy” is uncommon French (frequency #50,506 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,506
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de sex toy.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sextoy · sextoy · French
sextoy · rank #50,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,506
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 394,209
- PHOTO-FINISH Sellerie
Nearest frequency peer: Sellerie (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sextoy”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- scientist
scientist
49,498 corpus weight
- sell
sell
49,497 corpus weight
- Sellerie
Sellerie
49,496 corpus weight
- sextoy
sextoy
49,495 corpus weight
- sexuée
sexuée
49,494 corpus weight
- sham
sham
49,493 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sextoy” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sextoy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛks.tɔj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sextoy” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sextoy is uncommon French at frequency #50,506 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛks.tɔj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de sex toy.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sextoy, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sextoy, spelled S-E-X-T-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Variante de sex toy.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sextoy", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.