fantasques
\fɑ̃.task\
The verdict
“fantasques” is uncommon French (frequency #68,279 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,279
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fantasque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fantasques · fantasques · French
fantasques · rank #68,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,279
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fantasmatique
Nearest frequency peer: fantasmatique (-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 « fantasques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fabriquons
fabriquons
31,726 corpus weight
- facéties
facéties
31,725 corpus weight
- fantasmatiq…
fantasmatique
31,723 corpus weight
- fantasques
fantasques
31,722 corpus weight
- feelings
feelings
31,721 corpus weight
- feliz
feliz
31,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fantasques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fantasques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɑ̃.task\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fantasques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fantasques is uncommon French at frequency #68,279 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɑ̃.task\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fantasque.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fantasques, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fantasques, spelled F-A-N-T-A-S-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fantasque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fantasques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le public, non content de (re)découvrir des décors fantasques, se verra aussi rappeler les grandes heures d’une haute couture française détonante — avec des personnalités fortes comme Jean-Paul Gaultier, Claude Montana, Thierry Mugler — ainsi que l’essor du prêt-à-porter, avec des marques comme Naf-Naf ou Kookaï, qui permettait déjà à chacun de se « looke…
Cependant voici madame Jonquille, qui se promène, à cette heure lumineuse des sauterelles, abritant sa délicate personne et son fin minois sous un immense parasol en papier, tout rond, à nervures très rapprochées et à grands bariolages fantasques.
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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