envy
\ˈen.vi\
The verdict
“envy” is uncommon French (frequency #71,496 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,496
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Envie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-envy · envy · French
envy · rank #71,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,496
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entremêlés
Nearest frequency peer: entremêlés (-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 « envy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enregistra
enregistra
28,508 corpus weight
- entomologis…
entomologistes
28,507 corpus weight
- entremêlés
entremêlés
28,506 corpus weight
- envy
envy
28,505 corpus weight
- ept
ept
28,504 corpus weight
- Erbil
Erbil
28,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « envy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | envy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈen.vi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « envy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
envy is uncommon French at frequency #71,496 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈen.vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Envie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for envy, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 envy, spelled E-N-V-Y.
Definition
- 1Envie.
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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