xiang
\ksjɑ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“xiang” is uncommon French (frequency #60,483 among 62 “X” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,483
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue sino-tibétaine chinoise parlée principalement dans les provinces du Hunan et du Sichuan, comptabilisant plus de 38 millions de locuteurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xiang · xiang · French
xiang · rank #60,483 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,483
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH woke
Nearest frequency peer: woke (-2 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 « xiang »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wicked
wicked
39,523 corpus weight
- Wissembourg
Wissembourg
39,521 corpus weight
- woke
woke
39,520 corpus weight
- xiang
xiang
39,518 corpus weight
- Yaël
Yaël
39,516 corpus weight
- Yitzhak
Yitzhak
39,515 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « xiang » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | xiang |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ksjɑ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « xiang » en français
Rare enough to double-check
xiang is uncommon French at frequency #60,483 among 62 “X” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ksjɑ̃ɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue sino-tibétaine chinoise parlée principalement dans les provinces du Hunan et du Sichuan, comptabilisant plus de 38 millions de locuteurs.".
xiang has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is xiang, spelled X-I-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1Langue sino-tibétaine chinoise parlée principalement dans les provinces du Hunan et du Sichuan, comptabilisant plus de 38 millions de locuteurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how xiang appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux groupes, en usage dans l'intérieur, conservent un caractère provincial : xiang dans le Hunan et gan dans le Jiangxi.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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