Edinburgh
The verdict
“Edinburgh” is uncommon French (frequency #57,909 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,909
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Édimbourg, ville d’Écosse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-edinburgh · Edinburgh · French
Edinburgh · rank #57,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,909
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH eder
Nearest frequency peer: eder (-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 « Edinburgh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dévots
dévots
42,095 corpus weight
- ECR
ECR
42,094 corpus weight
- eder
eder
42,093 corpus weight
- Edinburgh
Edinburgh
42,092 corpus weight
- efs
efs
42,091 corpus weight
- Elina
Elina
42,089 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Edinburgh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Edinburgh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Edinburgh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Edinburgh is uncommon French at frequency #57,909 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Édimbourg, ville d’Écosse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Edinburgh, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Edinburgh, spelled E-D-I-N-B-U-R-G-H.
Definition
- 1Édimbourg, ville d’Écosse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Edinburgh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Edinburghu byl přidělen titul královské město ve 12. století.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).