elbow
\ˈɛl.bəʊ\
The verdict
“elbow” is uncommon French (frequency #90,685 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,685
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elbow · elbow · French
elbow · rank #90,685 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,685
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effractions
Nearest frequency peer: effractions (-2 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 « elbow »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- EDL
EDL
9,320 corpus weight
- effectuerait
effectuerait
9,319 corpus weight
- effractions
effractions
9,318 corpus weight
- elbow
elbow
9,316 corpus weight
- ember
ember
9,313 corpus weight
- embrassées
embrassées
9,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « elbow » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elbow |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɛl.bəʊ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « elbow » en français
Rare enough to double-check
elbow is uncommon French at frequency #90,685 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɛl.bəʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
elbow doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is elbow, spelled E-L-B-O-W.
Definition
- 1Coude.
- 2Coude (de tuyau).
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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