SPL
The verdict
“SPL” is uncommon French (frequency #65,537 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,537
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En France, forme de société mise à la disposition des collectivités locales pour la gestion de leurs services publics.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spl · SPL · French
SPL · rank #65,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,537
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spiruline
Nearest frequency peer: spiruline (-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 « SPL »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spade
spade
34,467 corpus weight
- Speer
Speer
34,466 corpus weight
- spiruline
spiruline
34,465 corpus weight
- SPL
SPL
34,464 corpus weight
- spoliés
spoliés
34,463 corpus weight
- sportivité
sportivité
34,462 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « SPL » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | SPL |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #65,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « SPL » en français
Rare enough to double-check
SPL is uncommon French at frequency #65,537 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En France, forme de société mise à la disposition des collectivités locales pour la gestion de leurs services publics.".
No misspelling variants are generated for SPL in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 SPL, spelled S-P-L.
Definition
- 1En France, forme de société mise à la disposition des collectivités locales pour la gestion de leurs services publics.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how SPL appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce jeudi, la Ville de Paris doit présenter sa nouvelle société publique locale funéraire (SPL).
Le régime juridique des SPL et des SPLA, sauf dispositions contraires, est identique à celui des sociétés d'économie mixte locales (SEML).
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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