SPIP
\spip\
The verdict
“SPIP” is uncommon French (frequency #70,227 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,227
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Service de l'administration pénitentiaire française qui assure le contrôle et le suivi des personnes placées sous main de justice en milieu ouvert comme en milieu fermé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spip · SPIP · French
SPIP · rank #70,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,227
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spie
Nearest frequency peer: spie (-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 « SPIP »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spectaculai…
spectaculairement
29,776 corpus weight
- spie
spie
29,775 corpus weight
- SPIP
SPIP
29,774 corpus weight
- spolier
spolier
29,773 corpus weight
- spécieux
spécieux
29,772 corpus weight
- sra
sra
29,771 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « SPIP » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | SPIP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spip\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « SPIP » en français
Rare enough to double-check
SPIP is uncommon French at frequency #70,227 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spip\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Service de l'administration pénitentiaire française qui assure le contrôle et le suivi des personnes placées sous main de justice en milieu ouvert comme en milieu fermé.".
Zero misspellings are on record for SPIP in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is SPIP, spelled S-P-I-P.
Definition
- 1Service de l'administration pénitentiaire française qui assure le contrôle et le suivi des personnes placées sous main de justice en milieu ouvert comme en milieu fermé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how SPIP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'avais été initialement recrutée en 2005 par le SPIP du Val d'Oise pour assurer la supervision mensuelle de la sociologue et du psychologue qui animaient un groupe de responsabilisation pour auteurs de violences conjugales, […].
Les SPIP sont composés de conseillers pénitentiaires d'insertion et de probation et/ou d'assistants sociaux qui travaillent en milieu ouvert ou en milieu fermé (établissement pénitentiaire).
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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