FaceTime
The verdict
“FaceTime” is uncommon French (frequency #62,990 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,990
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Application de visioconférence développée par Apple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-facetime · FaceTime · French
FaceTime · rank #62,990 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,990
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH exécuteurs
Nearest frequency peer: exécuteurs (-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 « FaceTime »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- explorez
explorez
37,014 corpus weight
- explosera
explosera
37,013 corpus weight
- exécuteurs
exécuteurs
37,012 corpus weight
- FaceTime
FaceTime
37,011 corpus weight
- fama
fama
37,010 corpus weight
- famas
famas
37,009 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « FaceTime » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FaceTime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « FaceTime » en français
Rare enough to double-check
FaceTime is uncommon French at frequency #62,990 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Application de visioconférence développée par Apple.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for FaceTime, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is FaceTime, spelled F-A-C-E-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Application de visioconférence développée par Apple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how FaceTime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est impossible via FaceTime et WhatsApp, explique Shaghayegh.
Très appréciée par les utilisateurs, FaceTime est une application de visioconférence développée par Apple et exclusive aux appareils iOS.
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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