spoken
\ˈspoːkən\
The verdict
“spoken” is uncommon French (frequency #75,252 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,252
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé du verbe to speak.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spoken · spoken · French
spoken · rank #75,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,252
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Spinosa
Nearest frequency peer: Spinosa (-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 « spoken »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- specs
specs
24,752 corpus weight
- spell
spell
24,751 corpus weight
- Spinosa
Spinosa
24,750 corpus weight
- spoken
spoken
24,749 corpus weight
- spéléologues
spéléologues
24,748 corpus weight
- steamer
steamer
24,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spoken » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spoken |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈspoːkən\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spoken » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spoken is uncommon French at frequency #75,252 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈspoːkən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé du verbe to speak.".
spoken doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is spoken, spelled S-P-O-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Participe passé du verbe to speak.
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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