specimen
\ˈspɛs.ɪ.mɪn\
The verdict
“specimen” is uncommon French (frequency #67,126 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,126
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécimen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-specimen · specimen · French
specimen · rank #67,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,126
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souf
Nearest frequency peer: souf (-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 « specimen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sonora
sonora
32,879 corpus weight
- soucié
soucié
32,877 corpus weight
- souf
souf
32,876 corpus weight
- specimen
specimen
32,875 corpus weight
- Statham
Statham
32,872 corpus weight
- Stonehenge
Stonehenge
32,871 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « specimen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | specimen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈspɛs.ɪ.mɪn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « specimen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
specimen is uncommon French at frequency #67,126 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈspɛs.ɪ.mɪn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for specimen in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is specimen, spelled S-P-E-C-I-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Spécimen.
- 2Échantillon, exemplaire.
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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