ergots
\ɛʁ.ɡo\
The verdict
“ergots” is uncommon French (frequency #90,697 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,697
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ergot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ergots · ergots · French
ergots · rank #90,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,697
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enthousiasmée
Nearest frequency peer: enthousiasmée (-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 « ergots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- engueules
engueules
9,308 corpus weight
- enrhumée
enrhumée
9,307 corpus weight
- enthousiasm…
enthousiasmée
9,305 corpus weight
- ergots
ergots
9,304 corpus weight
- erronément
erronément
9,303 corpus weight
- euphorbe
euphorbe
9,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ergots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ergots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ergots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ergots is uncommon French at frequency #90,697 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛʁ.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ergot.".
ergots has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ergots, spelled E-R-G-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ergot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ergots appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, le victimaire s’acharna sur eux avec son fouet dont les lanières portaient des ergots de fer, des pointes acérées qui mordaient les chairs avec des claquements sinistres.
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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