ambrosia
The verdict
“ambrosia” is uncommon French (frequency #98,722 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,722
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ambroisie, nourriture des dieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ambrosia · ambrosia · French
ambrosia · rank #98,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,722
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amazighe
Nearest frequency peer: amazighe (-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 « ambrosia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- altro
altro
1,282 corpus weight
- alémaniques
alémaniques
1,281 corpus weight
- amazighe
amazighe
1,280 corpus weight
- ambrosia
ambrosia
1,279 corpus weight
- Ambrosius
Ambrosius
1,278 corpus weight
- Ameline
Ameline
1,277 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ambrosia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ambrosia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ambrosia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ambrosia is uncommon French at frequency #98,722 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ambrosia, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 ambrosia, spelled A-M-B-R-O-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1Ambroisie, nourriture des dieux.
- 2Onguent parfumé pour oindre le corps.
- 3Antidote contre le poison.
- 4Botrys.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ambrosia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
non enim ambrosiā deos aut nectare laetari arbitror
liquidum ambrosiae diffundit odorem
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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