amphibien
\ɑ̃.fi.bjɛ̃\
The verdict
“amphibien” is uncommon French (frequency #96,585 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,585
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal vertébré tétrapode anamniote qui a la particularité de posséder deux « vies » : une première aquatique à l’état larvaire et une seconde terrestre à l’état adulte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amphibien · amphibien · French
amphibien · rank #96,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,585
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ambulancière
Nearest frequency peer: ambulancière (-2 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 « amphibien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- altiste
altiste
3,421 corpus weight
- ambivalents
ambivalents
3,419 corpus weight
- ambulancière
ambulancière
3,418 corpus weight
- amphibien
amphibien
3,416 corpus weight
- anderlechto…
anderlechtois
3,414 corpus weight
- anel
anel
3,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amphibien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amphibien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fi.bjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amphibien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amphibien is uncommon French at frequency #96,585 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.fi.bjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Animal vertébré tétrapode anamniote qui a la particularité de posséder deux « vies » : une première aquatique à l’état larvaire et une seconde terrestre à l’état adulte.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for amphibien, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 amphibien, spelled A-M-P-H-I-B-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Animal vertébré tétrapode anamniote qui a la particularité de posséder deux « vies » : une première aquatique à l’état larvaire et une seconde terrestre à l’état adulte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amphibien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces nouveaux orifices respiratoires internes en position supra-glottique ne résultent pas d’un recul des orifices narinaires internes des dipneustes et des amphibiens.
L’embryon était recroquevillé comme un amphibien, un œil braqué sur lui.
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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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