spend
\ʃpɛnt\
The verdict
“spend” is uncommon French (frequency #80,666 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,666
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de spenden.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spend · spend · French
spend · rank #80,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,666
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spiritual
Nearest frequency peer: spiritual (+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 « spend »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spaak
spaak
19,337 corpus weight
- spend
spend
19,335 corpus weight
- spiritual
spiritual
19,334 corpus weight
- spiritualis…
spiritualiste
19,333 corpus weight
- stabat
stabat
19,332 corpus weight
- Stalin
Stalin
19,331 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spend » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spend |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃpɛnt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spend » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spend is uncommon French at frequency #80,666 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃpɛnt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de spenden.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for spend, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is spend, spelled S-P-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de spenden.
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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