Xe
\di.zjɛm\
The verdict
“Xe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,607) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,607
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dixième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xe · Xe · French
Xe · rank #20,607 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,607
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH Willie
Nearest frequency peer: Willie (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Xe »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- véridique
véridique
79,397 corpus weight
- webcam
webcam
79,396 corpus weight
- Willie
Willie
79,395 corpus weight
- Xe
Xe
79,394 corpus weight
- yan
yan
79,393 corpus weight
- yens
yens
79,392 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Xe » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Xe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.zjɛm\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #20,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Xe »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Xe is neighbouring look-alikes ("XV", "xi", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \di.zjɛm\. Frequency #20,607 among 62 “X” headwords. Gloss: "Dixième.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Xe in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "XV", "xi", "XX", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Xe, spelled X-E.
Definition
- 1Dixième.
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.