elegant
\eleˈɡant\
The verdict
“elegant” is uncommon French (frequency #69,043 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,043
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élégant, qui a de l’élégance, du chic, du style, qualifie une personne, un vêtement, un comportement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elegant · elegant · French
elegant · rank #69,043 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,043
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfonça
Nearest frequency peer: enfonça (+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 « elegant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- efforça
efforça
30,962 corpus weight
- effriter
effriter
30,961 corpus weight
- elegant
elegant
30,958 corpus weight
- enfonça
enfonça
30,957 corpus weight
- enfumé
enfumé
30,956 corpus weight
- engageront
engageront
30,955 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « elegant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elegant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \eleˈɡant\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « elegant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
elegant is uncommon French at frequency #69,043 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \eleˈɡant\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for elegant, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is elegant, spelled E-L-E-G-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Élégant, qui a de l’élégance, du chic, du style, qualifie une personne, un vêtement, un comportement.
- 2Élégant, qualifie une solution simple et satisfaisante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how elegant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie trägt einen eleganten Mantel.
Über die brasilianische Nationalauswahl bräuchte man eigentlich nicht viele Worte verlieren. Die Seleção ist die beste, berühmteste, bezauberndste, erfolgreichste, ästhetischste, grandioseste, eleganteste, wunderbarste Fußballmannschaft der Welt.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).