spes
The verdict
“spes” is uncommon French (frequency #66,355 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,355
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécial, d’une drôle de manière, étrange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spes · spes · French
spes · rank #66,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,355
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spelling
Nearest frequency peer: spelling (-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 « spes »
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 « spes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spes is uncommon French at frequency #66,355 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécial, d’une drôle de manière, étrange.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for spes in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is spes, spelled S-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1Spécial, d’une drôle de manière, étrange.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vinkona þín var svakalega spes.
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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