XX

symbol

Letters

2 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,102

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

XX is aFrenchsymbol. It means: ***, X. Note d’usage : Symbole utilisé pour caché un nom de personne ou un mot. Often confused with XY and XXe.

Key facts for XX
PropertyValue
HeadwordXX
LanguageFrench
Part of speechSymbol
Letters2
Frequency rank#10,102
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of XX in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for XX is 2 letters long, classified as asymbol. Corpus data places it at rank #10,102 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "***, X. Note d’usage : Symbole utilisé pour caché un nom de personne ou un mot.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for XX in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "XY", "XXe", "XXX", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is XX, spelled X-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ***, X. Note d’usage : Symbole utilisé pour caché un nom de personne ou un mot.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #10,102 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "XX"?
"XX" is spelled X-X.
What does "XX" mean?
As a symbol, "XX" means: ***, X. Note d’usage : Symbole utilisé pour caché un nom de personne ou un mot.
What words are commonly confused with "XX"?
"XX" is commonly confused with "XY", "XXe", "XXX". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "XX" come from?
"XX" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter X in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.