speaks
\spiks\
The verdict
“speaks” is uncommon French (frequency #90,216 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,216
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe irrégulier speak.
Corpus desk
Index FR-speaks · speaks · French
speaks · rank #90,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,216
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soutifs
Nearest frequency peer: soutifs (-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 « speaks »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Soustelle
Soustelle
9,788 corpus weight
- soutifs
soutifs
9,787 corpus weight
- speaks
speaks
9,785 corpus weight
- stimulera
stimulera
9,783 corpus weight
- Stoltenberg
Stoltenberg
9,782 corpus weight
- stolz
stolz
9,781 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « speaks » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | speaks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \spiks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « speaks » en français
Rare enough to double-check
speaks is uncommon French at frequency #90,216 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \spiks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe irrégulier speak.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for speaks, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 speaks, spelled S-P-E-A-K-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe irrégulier speak.
Synonyms
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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