fantine
\fɑ̃.tin\
The verdict
“fantine” is uncommon French (frequency #76,562 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,562
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie du chevalet à dévider la soie de dessus les cocons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fantine · fantine · French
fantine · rank #76,562 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,562
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fanas
Nearest frequency peer: fanas (-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 « fantine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fabrica
fabrica
23,442 corpus weight
- faciliteront
faciliteront
23,441 corpus weight
- fanas
fanas
23,440 corpus weight
- fantine
fantine
23,439 corpus weight
- fastidieuses
fastidieuses
23,438 corpus weight
- Fatoumata
Fatoumata
23,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fantine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fantine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɑ̃.tin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fantine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fantine is uncommon French at frequency #76,562 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɑ̃.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie du chevalet à dévider la soie de dessus les cocons.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fantine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fantine, spelled F-A-N-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Partie du chevalet à dévider la soie de dessus les cocons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fantine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fantine, ce sont les petits crochets de fil de fer dans lesquels on fait passer les fils de la soie, et cavaletti sont les tours .
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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