elegance
\ˈɛl.ɪ.ɡəns\
The verdict
“elegance” is uncommon French (frequency #88,573 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,573
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élégance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elegance · elegance · French
elegance · rank #88,573 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,573
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embarquons
Nearest frequency peer: embarquons (+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 « elegance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- efficiency
efficiency
11,432 corpus weight
- EHF
EHF
11,431 corpus weight
- elegance
elegance
11,428 corpus weight
- embarquons
embarquons
11,426 corpus weight
- embrassera
embrassera
11,425 corpus weight
- emmagasinée
emmagasinée
11,424 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « elegance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elegance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɛl.ɪ.ɡəns\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « elegance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
elegance is uncommon French at frequency #88,573 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɛl.ɪ.ɡəns\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Élégance.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for elegance, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 elegance, spelled E-L-E-G-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Élégance.
Synonyms
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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