Adélie
\a.de.li\
The verdict
“Adélie” is uncommon French (frequency #76,288 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,288
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adelie · Adélie · French
Adélie · rank #76,288 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,288
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH advice
Nearest frequency peer: advice (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Adélie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- admiratifs
admiratifs
23,716 corpus weight
- adrenaline
adrenaline
23,715 corpus weight
- advice
advice
23,714 corpus weight
- Adélie
Adélie
23,713 corpus weight
- affrétés
affrétés
23,711 corpus weight
- afrikaans
afrikaans
23,710 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Adélie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adélie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.de.li\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Adélie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Adélie is uncommon French at frequency #76,288 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.de.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin français.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Adélie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Adélie, spelled A-D-É-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Adélie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour 2021, Adélie Métayer donne une impulsion nouvelle à sa marque de robes de mariée en habillant les invitées de ce grand jour.
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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