ead
\æː.ɑd\
The verdict
“ead” is uncommon French (frequency #87,582 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,582
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bonheur, joie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ead · ead · French
ead · rank #87,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,582
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH dévoreur
Nearest frequency peer: dévoreur (-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 « ead »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- détraquée
détraquée
12,423 corpus weight
- dévastations
dévastations
12,422 corpus weight
- dévastent
dévastent
12,421 corpus weight
- dévoreur
dévoreur
12,420 corpus weight
- ead
ead
12,419 corpus weight
- effarée
effarée
12,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ead » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ead |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \æː.ɑd\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #87,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ead » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ead is uncommon French at frequency #87,582 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \æː.ɑd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ead has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 ead, spelled E-A-D.
Definition
- 1Bonheur, joie.
- 2Prospérité, richesse.
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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