ellipsoïde
\e.li.psɔ.id\
The verdict
“ellipsoïde” is uncommon French (frequency #79,268 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,268
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la forme d’une ellipse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ellipsoide · ellipsoïde · French
ellipsoïde · rank #79,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,268
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH EMF
Nearest frequency peer: EMF (+3 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 « ellipsoïde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- détracteur
détracteur
20,739 corpus weight
- easing
easing
20,738 corpus weight
- ellipsoïde
ellipsoïde
20,733 corpus weight
- EMF
EMF
20,730 corpus weight
- Emmeline
Emmeline
20,729 corpus weight
- empaillé
empaillé
20,728 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ellipsoïde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ellipsoïde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.li.psɔ.id\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ellipsoïde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ellipsoïde is uncommon French at frequency #79,268 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.li.psɔ.id\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a la forme d’une ellipse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ellipsoïde, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ellipsoïde, spelled E-L-L-I-P-S-O-Ï-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a la forme d’une ellipse.
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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