fallot
\fa.lo\
The verdict
“fallot” is uncommon French (frequency #96,914 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,914
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de grande lanterne ordinairement faite de toile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fallot · fallot · French
fallot · rank #96,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,914
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH faiblarde
Nearest frequency peer: faiblarde (-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 « fallot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fafa
fafa
3,090 corpus weight
- faiblarde
faiblarde
3,088 corpus weight
- fallot
fallot
3,087 corpus weight
- fanchon
fanchon
3,086 corpus weight
- fascismes
fascismes
3,085 corpus weight
- fashionista
fashionista
3,084 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fallot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fallot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.lo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fallot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fallot is uncommon French at frequency #96,914 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de grande lanterne ordinairement faite de toile.".
fallot doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fallot, spelled F-A-L-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Espèce de grande lanterne ordinairement faite de toile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fallot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heureusement personne à cette heure ne passait par le chemin, car c’eût été pour le voyageur un spectacle assez effrayant et mystérieux que ce groupe funèbre éclairé bizarrement par le reflet rougeâtre du fallot, et laissant après lui de longues ombres difformes sur la blancheur de la neige.
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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