strix
\stʁiks\
The verdict
“strix” is uncommon French (frequency #87,185 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,185
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rapace nocturne du genre des chouettes hulottes ou chouette-effraie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-strix · strix · French
strix · rank #87,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,185
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH streak
Nearest frequency peer: streak (-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 « strix »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- storico
storico
12,819 corpus weight
- streak
streak
12,817 corpus weight
- strix
strix
12,816 corpus weight
- subsista
subsista
12,815 corpus weight
- suna
suna
12,814 corpus weight
- supersonic
supersonic
12,813 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « strix » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « strix » en français
Rare enough to double-check
strix is uncommon French at frequency #87,185 among 6,032 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how strix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De ton toit, où la strix aura bientôt chanté, Regarde s’envoler avec l’hôte insulté L’Innocence, la Foi, la Paix.
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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