strix
\stʁiks\
The verdict
“strix” is uncommon French (frequency #87,185 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,185
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rapace nocturne du genre des chouettes hulottes ou chouette-effraie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁiks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “strix” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
strix is uncommon French at frequency #87,185 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stʁiks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rapace nocturne du genre des chouettes hulottes ou chouette-effraie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for strix, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is strix, spelled S-T-R-I-X.
Definition
- 1Rapace nocturne du genre des chouettes hulottes ou chouette-effraie.
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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Using “strix”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-T-R-I-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \stʁiks\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.