spicy
\ˈspaɪsi\
The verdict
“spicy” is uncommon French (frequency #95,351 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,351
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épicé, qui contient des épices.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spicy · spicy · French
spicy · rank #95,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,351
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spotless
Nearest frequency peer: spotless (+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 « spicy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soufie
soufie
4,653 corpus weight
- soupirants
soupirants
4,652 corpus weight
- spicy
spicy
4,650 corpus weight
- spotless
spotless
4,649 corpus weight
- Sprimont
Sprimont
4,648 corpus weight
- squid
squid
4,647 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spicy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spicy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈspaɪsi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spicy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spicy is uncommon French at frequency #95,351 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈspaɪsi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
spicy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is spicy, spelled S-P-I-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Épicé, qui contient des épices.
- 2Pimenté.
- 3Relevé, corsé, épicé.
- 4Coloré, original, intéressant.
- 5Osé.
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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