fantoche
\fɑ̃.tɔʃ\
The verdict
“fantoche” is uncommon French (frequency #54,581 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,581
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une chose ou un groupe manipulé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fantoche · fantoche · French
fantoche · rank #54,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,581
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fanfan
Nearest frequency peer: fanfan (-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 « fantoche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fabulous
fabulous
45,423 corpus weight
- faillis
faillis
45,422 corpus weight
- fanfan
fanfan
45,421 corpus weight
- fantoche
fantoche
45,420 corpus weight
- fatals
fatals
45,419 corpus weight
- FCO
FCO
45,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fantoche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fantoche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɑ̃.tɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fantoche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fantoche is uncommon French at frequency #54,581 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɑ̃.tɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie une chose ou un groupe manipulé.".
fantoche doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 fantoche, spelled F-A-N-T-O-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une chose ou un groupe manipulé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fantoche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À terme, quand l’existence de ces États fantoches ne se justifiait plus, soit qu'ils devinssent inaptes à jouer leur rôle, soit que leur intégration ne fît plus difficulté, l’Empire les transformait en province pour les administrer directement.
This word in other languages
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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