spermicide
\spɛʁ.mi.sid\
The verdict
“spermicide” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui détruit les spermatozoïdes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spermicide · spermicide · French
spermicide · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spermicide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \spɛʁ.mi.sid\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spermicide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spermicide is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \spɛʁ.mi.sid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui détruit les spermatozoïdes.".
spermicide has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is spermicide, spelled S-P-E-R-M-I-C-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui détruit les spermatozoïdes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spermicide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons un besoin urgent d'un médicament combiné, spermicide et virucide, qui puisse protéger à la fois contre la grossesse et les MST.
This word in other languages
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