élégies
\e.le.ʒi\
The verdict
“élégies” is uncommon French (frequency #78,991 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,991
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de élégie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elegies · élégies · French
élégies · rank #78,991 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,991
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH électrice
Nearest frequency peer: électrice (-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 « élégies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- élança
élança
21,012 corpus weight
- électrice
électrice
21,011 corpus weight
- élégies
élégies
21,010 corpus weight
- émotives
émotives
21,009 corpus weight
- émulsions
émulsions
21,008 corpus weight
- épandages
épandages
21,007 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « élégies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élégies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.le.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « élégies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
élégies is uncommon French at frequency #78,991 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.le.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de élégie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for élégies in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is élégies, spelled É-L-É-G-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de élégie.
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).