XXIe
\vɛ̃.t‿e.y.njɛm\
The verdict
“XXIe” sits in 15 confusable pairs (corpus #13,298) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,298
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vingt-et-unième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xxie · XXIe · French
XXIe · rank #13,298 · 2 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,298
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH work
Nearest frequency peer: work (-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 « XXIe »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- votants
votants
86,706 corpus weight
- Wii
Wii
86,705 corpus weight
- work
work
86,704 corpus weight
- XXIe
XXIe
86,703 corpus weight
- échappent
échappent
86,702 corpus weight
- épuisement
épuisement
86,701 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « XXIe » 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 | XXIe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɛ̃.t‿e.y.njɛm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « XXIe »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for XXIe is neighbouring look-alikes ("XXX", "XXL", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \vɛ̃.t‿e.y.njɛm\. Frequency #13,298 among 62 “X” headwords. Gloss: "Vingt-et-unième.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for XXIe, including "xixe" and "xxei". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "XXX", "XXL", "XXIème", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 XXIe, spelled X-X-I-E.
Definition
- 1Vingt-et-unième.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- xixe
- xxei
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of XXIe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "XXIe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).