élégie
\e.le.ʒi\
The verdict
“élégie” is uncommon French (frequency #57,708 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,708
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de poésie dont le sujet est triste ou tendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elegie · élégie · French
élégie · rank #57,708 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,708
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éloignera
Nearest frequency peer: éloignera (-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 « élégie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- égarées
égarées
42,296 corpus weight
- égos
égos
42,295 corpus weight
- éloignera
éloignera
42,294 corpus weight
- élégie
élégie
42,293 corpus weight
- émotivité
émotivité
42,292 corpus weight
- Énée
Énée
42,291 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « élégie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élégie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.le.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « élégie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
élégie is uncommon French at frequency #57,708 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.le.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
élégie has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 élégie, spelled É-L-É-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Genre de poésie dont le sujet est triste ou tendre.
- 2Morceau d’inspiration poétique, souvent mélancolique.
- 3Personne dont l’allure, la physionomie, le caractère sont empreints de tristesse, de mélancolie, à l’image des personnages des élégies.
- 4Confidences échangées sur un mode plaintif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how élégie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces éclairs de bonheur à soi seul, entremêlés de méditations mélancoliques, […] rendirent ce jeune homme un spectacle d’autant plus touchant que sa physionomie et sa personne étaient en harmonie avec ce sentiment profond. Il n’y a rien de plus poétique qu’une élégie animée qui a des yeux, qui marche ; et qui soupire sans rimes.
Le lendemain, comme j’étais occupé à composer une élégie, et que je mordais ma plume dans l’attente d’une rime, Chvabrine frappa sous ma fenêtre.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).