XVIème
\sɛ.zjɛm\
The verdict
“XVIème” is uncommon French (frequency #58,366 among 62 “X” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,366
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seizième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xvieme · XVIème · French
XVIème · rank #58,366 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,366
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH WS
Nearest frequency peer: WS (-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 « XVIème »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Wojciech
Wojciech
41,640 corpus weight
- WS
WS
41,637 corpus weight
- XVIème
XVIème
41,635 corpus weight
- zirconium
zirconium
41,633 corpus weight
- échangeaient
échangeaient
41,632 corpus weight
- éclatants
éclatants
41,631 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « XVIème » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | XVIème |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛ.zjɛm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « XVIème » en français
Rare enough to double-check
XVIème is uncommon French at frequency #58,366 among 62 “X” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɛ.zjɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Seizième.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for XVIème, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 XVIème, spelled X-V-I-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Seizième.
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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