épiphane
\e.pi.fan\
The verdict
“épiphane” is uncommon French (frequency #82,606 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,606
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Illustre, nom donné à quelques souverains parmi les successeurs d’Alexandre le Grand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epiphane · épiphane · French
épiphane · rank #82,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,606
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH émiettement
Nearest frequency peer: émiettement (-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 « épiphane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- électrophor…
électrophorèse
17,398 corpus weight
- émanaient
émanaient
17,397 corpus weight
- émiettement
émiettement
17,396 corpus weight
- épiphane
épiphane
17,395 corpus weight
- épousez
épousez
17,394 corpus weight
- éprouva
éprouva
17,393 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épiphane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épiphane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.pi.fan\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épiphane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épiphane is uncommon French at frequency #82,606 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.pi.fan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for épiphane, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 épiphane, spelled É-P-I-P-H-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Illustre, nom donné à quelques souverains parmi les successeurs d’Alexandre le Grand.
- 2Surnom que l’on appliquait aux dieux de l'Olympe.
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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