factorielle
\fak.tɔ.ʁjɛl\
The verdict
“factorielle” is uncommon French (frequency #78,416 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,416
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Résultat de la multiplication d’un nombre entier par tous les nombres entiers supérieurs à 0 inférieurs à celui-ci.
Corpus desk
Index FR-factorielle · factorielle · French
factorielle · rank #78,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,416
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fabergé
Nearest frequency peer: Fabergé (-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 « factorielle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exportait
exportait
21,588 corpus weight
- extrajudici…
extrajudiciaires
21,587 corpus weight
- Fabergé
Fabergé
21,586 corpus weight
- factorielle
factorielle
21,585 corpus weight
- fanal
fanal
21,584 corpus weight
- farfouiller
farfouiller
21,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « factorielle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | factorielle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fak.tɔ.ʁjɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #78,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « factorielle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
factorielle is uncommon French at frequency #78,416 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fak.tɔ.ʁjɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Résultat de la multiplication d’un nombre entier par tous les nombres entiers supérieurs à 0 inférieurs à celui-ci.".
factorielle has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is factorielle, spelled F-A-C-T-O-R-I-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Résultat de la multiplication d’un nombre entier par tous les nombres entiers supérieurs à 0 inférieurs à celui-ci.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how factorielle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La factorielle de 5, qu’on note 5!, est égale à 5×4×3×2×1, soit 120.
Dans la suite de cette thèse, nous établissons une condition nécesssaire et suffisante pour l'intégralité des coefficients de Taylor des applications miroir définies par des quotients de factorielles de formes linéaires.
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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