ebony
\ˈɛb.ə.ni\
The verdict
“ebony” is uncommon French (frequency #62,236 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,236
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ébène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ebony · ebony · French
ebony · rank #62,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,236
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH désunion
Nearest frequency peer: désunion (-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 « ebony »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désintéress…
désintéressés
37,768 corpus weight
- désiste
désiste
37,767 corpus weight
- désunion
désunion
37,766 corpus weight
- ebony
ebony
37,765 corpus weight
- ecclésiale
ecclésiale
37,764 corpus weight
- efi
efi
37,763 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ebony » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ebony |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɛb.ə.ni\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ebony » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ebony is uncommon French at frequency #62,236 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɛb.ə.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ébène.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ebony, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 ebony, spelled E-B-O-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Ébène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ebony appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? — Famed is thy beauty, Majesty. But hold, a lovely maid I see. Rags cannot hide her gentle grace. Alas, she is more fair than thee. — Alas for her! Reveal her name. — Lips red as the rose. Hair black as ebony. Skin white as snow. — Snow White!
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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