speaking
\ˈspiːkɪŋ\
The verdict
“speaking” is uncommon French (frequency #56,939 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,939
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parlant, éloquent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-speaking · speaking · French
speaking · rank #56,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,939
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souhaitions
Nearest frequency peer: souhaitions (-2 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 « speaking »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sopranos
sopranos
43,067 corpus weight
- soubrette
soubrette
43,066 corpus weight
- souhaiteriez
souhaiteriez
43,065 corpus weight
- souhaitions
souhaitions
43,064 corpus weight
- speaking
speaking
43,062 corpus weight
- springboks
springboks
43,059 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « speaking » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | speaking |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈspiːkɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « speaking » en français
Rare enough to double-check
speaking is uncommon French at frequency #56,939 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈspiːkɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
speaking doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is speaking, spelled S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Parlant, éloquent.
- 2Qui possède la parole, qui à la capacité de parler.
- 3Qui parle une langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how speaking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A speaking parrot — un perroquet qui parle.
An Italian speaking secretary — Une secrétaire qui parle l'italien.
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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