XXX
The verdict
“XXX” sits in 18 confusable pairs (corpus #13,090) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,090
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représente l’action hardcore, très pornographique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xxx · XXX · French
XXX · rank #13,090 · 0 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,090
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH végétales
Nearest frequency peer: végétales (-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 « XXX »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Vincennes
Vincennes
86,914 corpus weight
- végétal
végétal
86,913 corpus weight
- végétales
végétales
86,912 corpus weight
- XXX
XXX
86,911 corpus weight
- écharpe
écharpe
86,910 corpus weight
- échoue
échoue
86,909 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « XXX » 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 | XXX |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « XXX »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for XXX is neighbouring look-alikes ("XY", "XYZ", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #13,090 among 62 “X” headwords. Gloss: "Représente l’action hardcore, très pornographique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for XXX, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "XY", "XYZ", "X", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is XXX, spelled X-X-X.
Definition
- 1Représente l’action hardcore, très pornographique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how XXX appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certains producteurs de films pornographiques allaient jusqu’à placer un « XX » ou un « XXX » pour indiquer que leur film avait un contenu sexuel bien plus important que le stade à partir duquel le film est interdit aux moins de 18 ans.
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "XXX", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).