Fantômas
\fɑ̃.to.mas\
The verdict
“Fantômas” is uncommon French (frequency #63,741 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,741
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage de fiction créé par Pierre Souvestre et Marcel Allain en 1910-1911.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fantomas · Fantômas · French
Fantômas · rank #63,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,741
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fanni
Nearest frequency peer: Fanni (-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 « Fantômas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Eyraud
Eyraud
36,264 corpus weight
- Fairmont
Fairmont
36,262 corpus weight
- Fanni
Fanni
36,261 corpus weight
- Fantômas
Fantômas
36,260 corpus weight
- faris
faris
36,258 corpus weight
- favor
favor
36,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fantômas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fantômas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fɑ̃.to.mas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fantômas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fantômas is uncommon French at frequency #63,741 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fɑ̃.to.mas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnage de fiction créé par Pierre Souvestre et Marcel Allain en 1910-1911.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Fantômas, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Fantômas, spelled F-A-N-T-Ô-M-A-S.
Definition
- 1Personnage de fiction créé par Pierre Souvestre et Marcel Allain en 1910-1911.
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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