spelling
\ˈspɛl.ɪŋ\
The verdict
“spelling” is uncommon French (frequency #66,354 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,354
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orthographe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spelling · spelling · French
spelling · rank #66,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,354
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH somewhere
Nearest frequency peer: somewhere (-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 « spelling »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Solon
Solon
33,649 corpus weight
- somewhere
somewhere
33,648 corpus weight
- spelling
spelling
33,647 corpus weight
- spes
spes
33,646 corpus weight
- stray
stray
33,645 corpus weight
- stérilisés
stérilisés
33,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spelling » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spelling |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈspɛl.ɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spelling » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spelling is uncommon French at frequency #66,354 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈspɛl.ɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for spelling in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is spelling, spelled S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Orthographe.
- 2Graphie, épellation, manière d’écrire un mot.
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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