sphéricité
\sfe.ʁi.si.te\
The verdict
“sphéricité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - État de ce qui est sphérique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sphericite · sphéricité · French
sphéricité · 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 | sphéricité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sfe.ʁi.si.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sphéricité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sphéricité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sfe.ʁi.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de ce qui est sphérique.".
sphéricité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 sphéricité, spelled S-P-H-É-R-I-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est sphérique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sphéricité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais toutes les grandes découvertes des cinq derniers siècles ne sont pour lui que tissus de mensonges et hérésies. Quand je lui parle de la sphéricité et des évolutions de la terre et des astres, de la découverte de l'Amérique, des tentatives faites pour atteindre les pôles, il se contente de hausser les épaules et sourit de ma présomption : la présompti…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.