spinal
\spi.nal\
The verdict
“spinal” is uncommon French (frequency #56,283 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,283
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux apophyses épineuses des vertèbres, à l'épine dorsale de la colonne vertébrale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spinal · spinal · French
spinal · rank #56,283 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,283
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soyer
Nearest frequency peer: soyer (-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 « spinal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- souscrites
souscrites
43,721 corpus weight
- souvenue
souvenue
43,720 corpus weight
- soyer
soyer
43,719 corpus weight
- spinal
spinal
43,718 corpus weight
- SPS
SPS
43,716 corpus weight
- spécifiés
spécifiés
43,715 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spinal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spinal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \spi.nal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spinal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spinal is uncommon French at frequency #56,283 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \spi.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux apophyses épineuses des vertèbres, à l'épine dorsale de la colonne vertébrale.".
spinal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 spinal, spelled S-P-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux apophyses épineuses des vertèbres, à l'épine dorsale de la colonne vertébrale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spinal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Artères spinales.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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