stupéfié
\sty.pe.fje\
The verdict
“stupéfié” is uncommon French (frequency #95,361 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,361
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être pétrifié ou engourdi par la stupeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stupefie · stupéfié · French
stupéfié · rank #95,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,361
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suives
Nearest frequency peer: suives (+2 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 « stupéfié »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- squid
squid
4,647 corpus weight
- stalagmites
stalagmites
4,646 corpus weight
- Stelvio
Stelvio
4,645 corpus weight
- stupéfié
stupéfié
4,640 corpus weight
- suives
suives
4,638 corpus weight
- supplantée
supplantée
4,634 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stupéfié » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stupéfié |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sty.pe.fje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stupéfié » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stupéfié is uncommon French at frequency #95,361 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sty.pe.fje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stupéfié, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is stupéfié, spelled S-T-U-P-É-F-I-É.
Definition
- 1Être pétrifié ou engourdi par la stupeur.
- 2Extrêmement surpris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stupéfié appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était ma première traversée véritable ; c’était aussi ma première rencontre, stupéfiée plutôt qu’horrifiée (l’adjectif est trop fort pour mes émotions encore superficielles et mal dégrossies), avec les misérables séquelles de la guerre.
Stupéfié, Morange se rapprocha insensiblement. On aurait dit qu’une bête sauvage aux griffes démesurées lui avait lacéré la peau.
Synonyms
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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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