sextuple
\sɛk.stypl\
The verdict
“sextuple” is uncommon French (frequency #75,222 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,222
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - La quantité six fois plus grande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sextuple · sextuple · French
sextuple · rank #75,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,222
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 394,209
- PHOTO-FINISH sexo
Nearest frequency peer: sexo (-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 “sextuple”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- serbo
serbo
24,783 corpus weight
- serpentant
serpentant
24,782 corpus weight
- servilité
servilité
24,781 corpus weight
- sexo
sexo
24,780 corpus weight
- sextuple
sextuple
24,779 corpus weight
- shakespeari…
shakespearien
24,778 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sextuple” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sextuple |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛk.stypl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sextuple” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sextuple is uncommon French at frequency #75,222 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛk.stypl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "La quantité six fois plus grande.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sextuple, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sextuple, spelled S-E-X-T-U-P-L-E.
Definition
- 1La quantité six fois plus grande.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 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.