stalactites
\sta.lak.tit\
The verdict
“stalactites” is uncommon French (frequency #65,541 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,541
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de stalactite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stalactites · stalactites · French
stalactites · rank #65,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,541
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Spree
Nearest frequency peer: Spree (-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 « stalactites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spoliés
spoliés
34,463 corpus weight
- sportivité
sportivité
34,462 corpus weight
- Spree
Spree
34,461 corpus weight
- stalactites
stalactites
34,460 corpus weight
- stampa
stampa
34,459 corpus weight
- staphylocoq…
staphylocoque
34,458 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stalactites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stalactites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sta.lak.tit\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stalactites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stalactites is uncommon French at frequency #65,541 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sta.lak.tit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de stalactite.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stalactites, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is stalactites, spelled S-T-A-L-A-C-T-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de stalactite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stalactites appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il sort une menteuse longue comme le tapis d’apparat de l’Élysée et toujours ses stalactites qui débabinent !
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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