spies
\ʃpiːs\
The verdict
“spies” is uncommon French (frequency #50,519 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,519
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de speisen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spies · spies · French
spies · rank #50,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,519
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spaces
Nearest frequency peer: spaces (-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 « spies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sophrologie
sophrologie
49,485 corpus weight
- souffleur
souffleur
49,484 corpus weight
- spaces
spaces
49,483 corpus weight
- spies
spies
49,482 corpus weight
- squelettique
squelettique
49,481 corpus weight
- stagnante
stagnante
49,480 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃpiːs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spies is uncommon French at frequency #50,519 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃpiːs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de speisen.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for spies, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is spies, spelled S-P-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de speisen.
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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