épigraphe
\e.pi.ɡʁaf\
The verdict
“épigraphe” is uncommon French (frequency #76,256 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,256
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inscription sur un édifice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epigraphe · épigraphe · French
épigraphe · rank #76,256 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,256
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élancées
Nearest frequency peer: élancées (-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 « épigraphe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- écouteront
écouteront
23,748 corpus weight
- éduc
éduc
23,747 corpus weight
- élancées
élancées
23,746 corpus weight
- épigraphe
épigraphe
23,745 corpus weight
- épilée
épilée
23,744 corpus weight
- éthyle
éthyle
23,743 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épigraphe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épigraphe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pi.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épigraphe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épigraphe is uncommon French at frequency #76,256 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pi.ɡʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for épigraphe in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 épigraphe, spelled É-P-I-G-R-A-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Inscription sur un édifice.
- 2Courte sentence, courte citation en tête d’un livre, d’un chapitre, etc., pour en indiquer l’objet ou l’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épigraphe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fronton du Panthéon porte l’épigraphe « Aux grands hommes, la patrie reconnaissante ».
Il a pris pour épigraphe tel vers d’Homère, de Virgile.
Synonyms
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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