spinale
\spi.nal\
The verdict
“spinale” is uncommon French (frequency #69,444 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,444
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de spinal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spinale · spinale · French
spinale · rank #69,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,444
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souverainisme
Nearest frequency peer: souverainisme (-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 « spinale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sourcing
sourcing
30,560 corpus weight
- souscrivant
souscrivant
30,559 corpus weight
- souverainis…
souverainisme
30,558 corpus weight
- spinale
spinale
30,557 corpus weight
- spéculateur
spéculateur
30,556 corpus weight
- spéculent
spéculent
30,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spinale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spinale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \spi.nal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spinale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spinale is uncommon French at frequency #69,444 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \spi.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de spinal.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for spinale in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is spinale, spelled S-P-I-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de spinal.
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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