Erfurt
The verdict
“Erfurt” is uncommon French (frequency #59,998 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,998
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, capitale de la Thuringe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erfurt · Erfurt · French
Erfurt · rank #59,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,998
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH envisageaient
Nearest frequency peer: envisageaient (-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 « Erfurt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enthousiasm…
enthousiasmant
40,006 corpus weight
- entraîneuse
entraîneuse
40,005 corpus weight
- envisageaie…
envisageaient
40,004 corpus weight
- Erfurt
Erfurt
40,003 corpus weight
- ethnologique
ethnologique
40,001 corpus weight
- eton
eton
40,000 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Erfurt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erfurt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Erfurt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Erfurt is uncommon French at frequency #59,998 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, capitale de la Thuringe.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Erfurt, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Erfurt, spelled E-R-F-U-R-T.
Definition
- 1Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, capitale de la Thuringe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Erfurt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et dans sa fosse à moines d’Erfurt sûrement que la faim et la soif de la justice le dévoraient.
A moins d’une lieue de Vendœuvres, en allant sur le marais de Bellebouche, au lieu dit « le button aux fades », une famille d’hommes libres, venant de la région d’Erfurt, a été pourvue par notre souverain d’un domaine, en remplacement d’Aquitains qui avaient péri pendant la guerre, il y a cela plus de vingt ans.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).