Évangéline
\e.vɑ̃.ʒe.lin\
The verdict
“Évangéline” is uncommon French (frequency #97,601 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,601
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-evangeline · Évangéline · French
Évangéline · rank #97,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,601
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étriper
Nearest frequency peer: étriper (-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 « Évangéline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- étendront
étendront
2,403 corpus weight
- étriper
étriper
2,401 corpus weight
- Évangéline
Évangéline
2,400 corpus weight
- évidée
évidée
2,399 corpus weight
- éviers
éviers
2,398 corpus weight
- škoda
škoda
2,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Évangéline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Évangéline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.vɑ̃.ʒe.lin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Évangéline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Évangéline is uncommon French at frequency #97,601 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \e.vɑ̃.ʒe.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Évangéline doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Évangéline, spelled É-V-A-N-G-É-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Évangéline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peinant à trouver un maître d’apprentissage, Coralie et Évangéline ont finalement signé un contrat avec l’entreprise blésoise Bertin Peinture. Son patron tient à faire une place aux femmes dans sa société.
Ton nom c’est plus que l’Acadie, Plus que l’espoir d’une patrie Ton nom dépasse les frontières Ton nom c’est le nom de tous ceux Qui malgré qu’ils soient malheureux Croient en l’amour et qui espèrent Évangéline, Évangéline Évangéline, Évangéline
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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