éléphante
\e.le.fɑ̃t\
The verdict
“éléphante” is uncommon French (frequency #95,487 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,487
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Éléphant femelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elephante · éléphante · French
éléphante · rank #95,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,487
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH émoticône
Nearest frequency peer: émoticône (+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 « éléphante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- écœurés
écœurés
4,518 corpus weight
- égouttage
égouttage
4,517 corpus weight
- éléphante
éléphante
4,514 corpus weight
- émoticône
émoticône
4,512 corpus weight
- émoussés
émoussés
4,511 corpus weight
- érablière
érablière
4,510 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éléphante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éléphante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.le.fɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éléphante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éléphante is uncommon French at frequency #95,487 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.le.fɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Éléphant femelle.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for éléphante, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is éléphante, spelled É-L-É-P-H-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Éléphant femelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éléphante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les habitants de la ville de Baltèse deviennent obsédés par l’éléphante.
Les girafes qui ne pouvaient se rompre, les éléphantes dont les charnières refusaient de plier, sont maintenant assouplies et brisées.
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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