éphélide
\e.fe.lid\
The verdict
“éphélide” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tache de rousseur ou tache quelconque sur la peau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ephelide · éphélide · French
éphélide · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éphélide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.fe.lid\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éphélide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éphélide is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.fe.lid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tache de rousseur ou tache quelconque sur la peau.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for éphélide, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is éphélide, spelled É-P-H-É-L-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Tache de rousseur ou tache quelconque sur la peau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éphélide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Évidemment, ce déni provient, pensait-il, d’autres particularités […] ; d’abord, de la maigreur de ces joues couleur de vieux bois, semées, çà et là, de gouttes d’éphélides, de taches paisibles d’ancien son.
Car les éphélides ne vous gâchent pas que la peau. À huit ans, sur les bancs de la petite classe, je l’avais déjà remarqué : il est bien moins grave de faire des taches sur son cahier que d’en avoir sur la figure.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.