congèle
\kɔ̃.ʒɛl\
The verdict
“congèle” is uncommon French (frequency #63,643 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,643
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Congélateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-congele · congèle · French
congèle · rank #63,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,643
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH congrue
Nearest frequency peer: congrue (-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 « congèle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- confirmerait
confirmerait
36,361 corpus weight
- confédéré
confédéré
36,360 corpus weight
- congrue
congrue
36,359 corpus weight
- congèle
congèle
36,358 corpus weight
- conjonctures
conjonctures
36,357 corpus weight
- consanguin
consanguin
36,356 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « congèle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | congèle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ʒɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « congèle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
congèle is uncommon French at frequency #63,643 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ʒɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Congélateur.".
Zero misspellings are on record for congèle in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is congèle, spelled C-O-N-G-È-L-E.
Definition
- 1Congélateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how congèle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La bière au congèle ?… Mais c’est horrible !!
On s’assoit sur deux congèles poussés le long d’une planche…
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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