endymion
\ɑ̃.di.mjɔ̃\
The verdict
“endymion” is uncommon French (frequency #84,760 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,760
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jacinthe sauvage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-endymion · endymion · French
endymion · rank #84,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,760
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endoctriner
Nearest frequency peer: endoctriner (-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 « endymion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enclencheme…
enclenchement
15,245 corpus weight
- enclines
enclines
15,244 corpus weight
- encyclopédi…
encyclopédiques
15,243 corpus weight
- endoctriner
endoctriner
15,242 corpus weight
- endymion
endymion
15,241 corpus weight
- enne
enne
15,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « endymion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endymion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.di.mjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « endymion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
endymion is uncommon French at frequency #84,760 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.di.mjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jacinthe sauvage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for endymion, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 endymion, spelled E-N-D-Y-M-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Jacinthe sauvage.
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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