Falstaff
\fal.staf\
The verdict
“Falstaff” is uncommon French (frequency #65,150 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,150
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’un personnage créé par William Shakespeare très porté sur la boisson, la nourriture et les femmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-falstaff · Falstaff · French
Falstaff · rank #65,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,150
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH falun
Nearest frequency peer: falun (+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 « Falstaff »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- externaliser
externaliser
34,855 corpus weight
- extractives
extractives
34,854 corpus weight
- Fairbanks
Fairbanks
34,853 corpus weight
- Falstaff
Falstaff
34,851 corpus weight
- falun
falun
34,850 corpus weight
- Fassbender
Fassbender
34,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Falstaff » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Falstaff |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fal.staf\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Falstaff » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Falstaff is uncommon French at frequency #65,150 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fal.staf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom d’un personnage créé par William Shakespeare très porté sur la boisson, la nourriture et les femmes.".
Falstaff has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Falstaff, spelled F-A-L-S-T-A-F-F.
Definition
- 1Nom d’un personnage créé par William Shakespeare très porté sur la boisson, la nourriture et les femmes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Falstaff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’imagination d’Harpagon ne bâtit qu’autour de sa cassette, celle de Falstaff autour d’une belle femme ou d'un tonnelet.
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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