fashionista
\fa.ʃjɔ.nis.ta\
The verdict
“fashionista” is uncommon French (frequency #96,917 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,917
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fanatique de la mode.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fashionista · fashionista · French
fashionista · rank #96,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,917
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fascismes
Nearest frequency peer: fascismes (-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 « fashionista »
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 « fashionista » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fashionista |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.ʃjɔ.nis.ta\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fashionista » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fashionista is uncommon French at frequency #96,917 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.ʃjɔ.nis.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fanatique de la mode.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fashionista, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fashionista, spelled F-A-S-H-I-O-N-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Fanatique de la mode.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fashionista appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les stylistes décérébrés (façon Christian Audigier), qui, désormais, excitent, au lieu de l’assagir, la fashionista compulsive avec des chiffons coûteux et post-gothiques.
Les fashionistas lui donnent d’ailleurs raison, puisqu’un expert français de la mode déclare, anonymement bien sûr, au journal du parti : « La mode de Kim Jong-il, qui se répand sur la terre entière, est sans équivalent dans l’Histoire du monde. » — (Mikal Hem, Et si je devenais dictateur, traduit du norvégien par Jean-Baptiste Coursaud, Gaïa, 2017, page…
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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