svastika
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#86,219
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
svastika is aFrenchnoun. It means: Symbole constitué d’une croix prolongée à angle droit à droite d’une barre de même longueur (卐). Pronounced \svas.ti.ka\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | svastika |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \svas.ti.ka\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for svastika is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \svas.ti.ka\. Corpus data places it at rank #86,219 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for svastika in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is svastika, spelled S-V-A-S-T-I-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Symbole constitué d’une croix prolongée à angle droit à droite d’une barre de même longueur (卐).
- 2En Inde, symbole de bon augure des hindous, des jaïns et des bouddhistes.
- 3En Corée du Sud et au Japon, symbole bouddhique très répandu.
- 4Croix gammée, symbole du parti nazi et de son régime.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #86,219 in French
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