elmo
\ˈɛɫ.mu\
The verdict
“elmo” is uncommon French (frequency #74,748 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,748
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Casque, heaume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elmo · elmo · French
elmo · rank #74,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,748
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embellissent
Nearest frequency peer: embellissent (+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 « elmo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- effaces
effaces
25,257 corpus weight
- efféminés
efféminés
25,256 corpus weight
- electricity
electricity
25,255 corpus weight
- elmo
elmo
25,253 corpus weight
- embellissent
embellissent
25,252 corpus weight
- embrasure
embrasure
25,251 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « elmo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elmo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɛɫ.mu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « elmo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
elmo is uncommon French at frequency #74,748 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɛɫ.mu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Casque, heaume.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for elmo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is elmo, spelled E-L-M-O.
Definition
- 1Casque, heaume.
Synonyms
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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