speck
\spɛk\
The verdict
“speck” is uncommon French (frequency #81,593 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,593
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Longe de porc fumée, spécialité du Tyrol italien (province autonome de Bolzano, majoritairement germanophone).
Corpus desk
Index FR-speck · speck · French
speck · rank #81,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,593
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soumettait
Nearest frequency peer: soumettait (-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 « speck »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soufflées
soufflées
18,411 corpus weight
- soumettait
soumettait
18,409 corpus weight
- speck
speck
18,408 corpus weight
- spiritualis…
spiritualisme
18,407 corpus weight
- squeeze
squeeze
18,406 corpus weight
- SSC
SSC
18,405 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « speck » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | speck |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɛk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « speck » en français
Rare enough to double-check
speck is uncommon French at frequency #81,593 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Longe de porc fumée, spécialité du Tyrol italien (province autonome de Bolzano, majoritairement germanophone).".
No misspelling variants are generated for speck in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is speck, spelled S-P-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1Longe de porc fumée, spécialité du Tyrol italien (province autonome de Bolzano, majoritairement germanophone).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how speck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd’hui, Jérôme Nolin, du restaurant Avenio à Avignon, nous dévoile sa recette de velours de topinambours et châtaignes et tranches de speck, sur une poêlée de champignons et oignons.
Faites griller la tranche de speck à la poêle 1 à 2 min de chaque côté pour qu’elle soit bien croustillante puis déposez-la sur un papier absorbant.
This word in other languages
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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