églantier
\e.ɡlɑ̃.tje\
The verdict
“églantier” is uncommon French (frequency #96,531 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,531
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rosier sauvage aux fruits oblongs, d’un rouge vif, renfermant des semences enveloppées de poils (→ voir gratte-cul).
Corpus desk
Index FR-eglantier · églantier · French
églantier · rank #96,531 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,531
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH égalisant
Nearest frequency peer: égalisant (-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 « églantier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éculés
éculés
3,473 corpus weight
- édifient
édifient
3,472 corpus weight
- égalisant
égalisant
3,471 corpus weight
- églantier
églantier
3,470 corpus weight
- électrifiés
électrifiés
3,469 corpus weight
- électrochim…
électrochimie
3,468 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « églantier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | églantier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡlɑ̃.tje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « églantier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
églantier is uncommon French at frequency #96,531 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ɡlɑ̃.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for églantier, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is églantier, spelled É-G-L-A-N-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rosier sauvage aux fruits oblongs, d’un rouge vif, renfermant des semences enveloppées de poils (→ voir gratte-cul).
- 2Désigne l’espèce Rosa canina, l’églantier des chiens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how églantier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh ! qu’il est beau, voyez, tout couvert de ses roses, Dans l’humide vallon, qu’il est beau, l’églantier !
Greffez les églantiers en écusson pour multiplier vos rosiers
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).