XXe
\vɛ̃.tjɛm\
The verdict
“XXe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,262) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,262
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vingtième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xxe · XXe · French
XXe · rank #7,262 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,262
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH wars
Nearest frequency peer: wars (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « XXe »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- valide
valide
92,743 corpus weight
- venger
venger
92,742 corpus weight
- wars
wars
92,740 corpus weight
- XXe
XXe
92,739 corpus weight
- zoo
zoo
92,738 corpus weight
- étroite
étroite
92,735 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « XXe » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | XXe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɛ̃.tjɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « XXe »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for XXe is neighbouring look-alikes ("XY", "XXX", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \vɛ̃.tjɛm\. Frequency #7,262 among 62 “X” headwords. Gloss: "Vingtième.".
XXe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "XY", "XXX", "XXL", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 XXe, spelled X-X-E.
Definition
- 1Vingtième.
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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