xerox
\ˈzɛ.ɹɒks\
The verdict
“xerox” is uncommon French (frequency #57,024 among 62 “X” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,024
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Photocopie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xerox · xerox · French
xerox · rank #57,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,024
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH WM
Nearest frequency peer: WM (-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 « xerox »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Weller
Weller
42,981 corpus weight
- Willems
Willems
42,979 corpus weight
- WM
WM
42,978 corpus weight
- xerox
xerox
42,977 corpus weight
- Yvain
Yvain
42,975 corpus weight
- Égée
Égée
42,973 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « xerox » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | xerox |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈzɛ.ɹɒks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « xerox » en français
Rare enough to double-check
xerox is uncommon French at frequency #57,024 among 62 “X” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈzɛ.ɹɒks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Photocopie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for xerox, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is xerox, spelled X-E-R-O-X.
Definition
- 1Photocopie.
Synonyms
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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