fanchon
\fɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“fanchon” is uncommon French (frequency #96,915 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,915
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit fichu que les femmes portent sur la tête et nouent sous le menton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fanchon · fanchon · French
fanchon · rank #96,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,915
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fallot
Nearest frequency peer: fallot (-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 « fanchon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- faunistique
faunistique
3,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fanchon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fanchon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fanchon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fanchon is uncommon French at frequency #96,915 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit fichu que les femmes portent sur la tête et nouent sous le menton.".
fanchon has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 fanchon, spelled F-A-N-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petit fichu que les femmes portent sur la tête et nouent sous le menton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fanchon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle tenait à la main un bouquet de catleyas et Swann vit, sous sa fanchon de dentelle, qu’elle avait dans les cheveux des fleurs de cette même orchidée attachées à une aigrette en plumes de cygne.
C’était aussi la gorge de son ennemie qu’elle voyait, entre les pointes du fichu à la Fanchon, noué assez bas, de Galswinthe.
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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