wicked
\ˈwɪk.ɪd\
The verdict
“wicked” is uncommon French (frequency #60,478 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,478
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vilain, mauvais, méchant, maudit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wicked · wicked · French
wicked · rank #60,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,478
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH whistle
Nearest frequency peer: whistle (-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 « wicked »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- végétative
végétative
39,528 corpus weight
- waou
waou
39,526 corpus weight
- whistle
whistle
39,524 corpus weight
- wicked
wicked
39,523 corpus weight
- Wissembourg
Wissembourg
39,521 corpus weight
- woke
woke
39,520 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « wicked » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wicked |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈwɪk.ɪd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « wicked » en français
Rare enough to double-check
wicked is uncommon French at frequency #60,478 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈwɪk.ɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for wicked in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is wicked, spelled W-I-C-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1Vilain, mauvais, méchant, maudit.
- 2Mortel ; chouette ; cool.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wicked appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The wicked child refused to clean up his room.
The wicked witch of the West eventually was killed in The Wizard of Oz.
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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