Xerxès
\ɡzɛʁk.sɛs\
The verdict
“Xerxès” is uncommon French (frequency #54,338 among 62 “X” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,338
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fils de Darius, roi des Perses, battu par les Grecs à Salamine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xerxes · Xerxès · French
Xerxès · rank #54,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,338
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH Yanis
Nearest frequency peer: Yanis (+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 « Xerxès »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- winch
winch
45,667 corpus weight
- wir
wir
45,666 corpus weight
- wizard
wizard
45,665 corpus weight
- Xerxès
Xerxès
45,663 corpus weight
- Yanis
Yanis
45,662 corpus weight
- Yarmouk
Yarmouk
45,661 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Xerxès » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Xerxès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡzɛʁk.sɛs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Xerxès » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Xerxès is uncommon French at frequency #54,338 among 62 “X” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡzɛʁk.sɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fils de Darius, roi des Perses, battu par les Grecs à Salamine.".
Xerxès has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Xerxès, spelled X-E-R-X-È-S.
Definition
- 1Fils de Darius, roi des Perses, battu par les Grecs à Salamine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Xerxès appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans Rise of an Empire, Gorgo commence à raconter les faits alors qu’elle y prend part, en omettant les évènements les plus récents (les Thermopyles) mais en posant de sordides petites considérations sur un Xerxès désiconisé à l’extrême et donc plus menaçant du tout.
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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