supplication
\sy.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“supplication” is uncommon French (frequency #72,772 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,772
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prière humble et instante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-supplication · supplication · French
supplication · rank #72,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,772
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sunnisme
Nearest frequency peer: sunnisme (-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 « supplication »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- successorale
successorale
27,232 corpus weight
- sulfures
sulfures
27,231 corpus weight
- sunnisme
sunnisme
27,230 corpus weight
- supplication
supplication
27,229 corpus weight
- surhommes
surhommes
27,227 corpus weight
- suspectent
suspectent
27,226 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « supplication » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supplication |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #72,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « supplication » en français
Rare enough to double-check
supplication is uncommon French at frequency #72,772 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for supplication, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is supplication, spelled S-U-P-P-L-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Prière humble et instante.
- 2Prières publiques ordonnées par le Sénat dans les circonstances graves.
- 3Remontrances de vive voix que le parlement faisait au roi en certaines occasions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how supplication appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'abbé a renouvelé maintes fois ses supplications, pour que le chapitre de Notre Dame, en considération des immenses travaux qu’il se voit forcé d’entreprendre, affranchisse le monastère des dîmes qu'il paie sur les biens que nous venons de mentionner: […].
À cette heure matinale, sous la lumière grise que laissaient tomber les hautes et minces baies, des messes de supplication étaient déjà dites à plusieurs autels, des cierges d’imploration brûlaient au fond de l’abside.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).