specific
\spɪˈsɪf.ɪk\
The verdict
“specific” is uncommon French (frequency #62,643 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,643
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécifique, déterminé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-specific · specific · French
specific · rank #62,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,643
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souverainement
Nearest frequency peer: souverainement (-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 « specific »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- souriais
souriais
37,360 corpus weight
- souverainem…
souverainement
37,359 corpus weight
- specific
specific
37,358 corpus weight
- spectrales
spectrales
37,357 corpus weight
- Spitzberg
Spitzberg
37,356 corpus weight
- squares
squares
37,355 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « specific » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | specific |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \spɪˈsɪf.ɪk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « specific » en français
Rare enough to double-check
specific is uncommon French at frequency #62,643 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \spɪˈsɪf.ɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécifique, déterminé.".
No misspelling variants are generated for specific in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 specific, spelled S-P-E-C-I-F-I-C.
Definition
- 1Spécifique, déterminé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how specific appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Create a program that determines whether or not it is possible to construct a particular total using a specific number of coins.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).