Xavière
\ɡza.vjɛʁ\
The verdict
“Xavière” is uncommon French (frequency #81,696 among 2,825 “X” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,696
- frequency rank, French
- 2,825
- “X” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xaviere · Xavière · French
Xavière · rank #81,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,696
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,825
- PHOTO-FINISH yar
Nearest frequency peer: yar (+3 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Xavière”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wafa
Wafa
18,312 corpus weight
- wed
wed
18,310 corpus weight
- Westin
Westin
18,309 corpus weight
- Xavière
Xavière
18,305 corpus weight
- yar
yar
18,302 corpus weight
- Zell
Zell
18,298 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Xavière” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Xavière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡza.vjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Xavière” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Xavière is uncommon French at frequency #81,696 among 2,825 “X” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡza.vjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Xavière in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 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. The correct French form is Xavière, spelled X-A-V-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Xavière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Xavière Tiberi n'a pas l'intention de changer sa ligne de défense dans le procès des faux électeurs du 5ème arrondissement de Paris.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.