églantine
\e.ɡlɑ̃.tin\
The verdict
“églantine” is uncommon French (frequency #64,891 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,891
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleur de l’églantier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eglantine · églantine · French
églantine · rank #64,891 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,891
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éclairera
Nearest frequency peer: éclairera (-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 « églantine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éclairait
éclairait
35,112 corpus weight
- éclairera
éclairera
35,111 corpus weight
- églantine
églantine
35,110 corpus weight
- électifs
électifs
35,109 corpus weight
- élèveront
élèveront
35,108 corpus weight
- émoussé
émoussé
35,107 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « églantine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | églantine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡlɑ̃.tin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « églantine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
églantine is uncommon French at frequency #64,891 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ɡlɑ̃.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fleur de l’églantier.".
Zero misspellings are on record for églantine in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is églantine, spelled É-G-L-A-N-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Fleur de l’églantier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how églantine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et l’églantine du ménestrel sera fanée, que fleurira toujours la giroflée, chaque printemps […]
C’étaient des regards doux et délicats comme les lotos bleus qui nagent sur les eaux, des expressions fugitives comme les faibles parfums de l’églantine, des mélancolies tendres comme le velours des mousses ; fleurs de deux belles âmes qui naissaient d’une terre riche, féconde, immuable.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).