successful
\səkˈsɛs.fəl\
The verdict
“successful” is uncommon French (frequency #84,341 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,341
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ayant du succès, marqué de succès, couronné de succès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-successful · successful · French
successful · rank #84,341 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,341
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH subduction
Nearest frequency peer: subduction (-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 « successful »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- STIC
STIC
15,664 corpus weight
- Stoffel
Stoffel
15,663 corpus weight
- subduction
subduction
15,661 corpus weight
- successful
successful
15,660 corpus weight
- succombera
succombera
15,659 corpus weight
- sumérien
sumérien
15,658 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « successful » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | successful |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \səkˈsɛs.fəl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « successful » en français
Rare enough to double-check
successful is uncommon French at frequency #84,341 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \səkˈsɛs.fəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for successful, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is successful, spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1Ayant du succès, marqué de succès, couronné de succès.
- 2Réussissant, brillant, prospère, réussi.
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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