Erfurt

name

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The verdict

“Erfurt” is an uncommon French word, ranked #59,998 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.

#59,998
frequency rank, French
6
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, capitale de la Thuringe.

Key facts for Erfurt
PropertyValue
HeadwordErfurt
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#59,998
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Erfurt” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Erfurt lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Erfurt is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #59,998 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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

  1. 1
    Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, capitale de la Thuringe.

This word in other languages

Erfurt(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Erfurt"?
"Erfurt" is spelled E-R-F-U-R-T.
What does "Erfurt" mean?
As a proper noun, "Erfurt" means: Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, capitale de la Thuringe.
What language does "Erfurt" come from?
"Erfurt" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “Erfurt”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is E-R-F-U-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list