Edmundston

name

The verdict

“Edmundston” is uncommon French (frequency #61,487 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,487
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du nord de la province du Nouveau-Brunswick.

Corpus desk

Index FR-edmundston · Edmundston · French

Edmundston · rank #61,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,487
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH dévaler

Nearest frequency peer: dévaler (-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 « Edmundston »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Edmundston » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Edmundston
PropertyValue
HeadwordEdmundston
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters10
Frequency rank#61,487
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Edmundston » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Edmundstontombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « dévaler » (#61,486), « effectueront » (#61,488), « dévale » (#61,485). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « Edmundston » est au #61,487. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Edmundston is uncommon French at frequency #61,487 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville du nord de la province du Nouveau-Brunswick.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Edmundston in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Edmundston, spelled E-D-M-U-N-D-S-T-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ville du nord de la province du Nouveau-Brunswick.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Edmundston appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La santé publique a découvert 27 nouveaux cas, dont onze dans la région de Fredericton, neuf dans la région de Moncton, trois dans la région de Saint-Jean, deux dans la région d'Edmundston et deux dans la région de Campbellton.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Edmundston"?
"Edmundston" is spelled E-D-M-U-N-D-S-T-O-N.
What does "Edmundston" mean?
As a proper noun, "Edmundston" means: Ville du nord de la province du Nouveau-Brunswick.
What language does "Edmundston" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Edmundston", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list