faunistique
\fo.nis.tik\
The verdict
“faunistique” is uncommon French (frequency #96,918 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,918
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la faune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faunistique · faunistique · French
faunistique · rank #96,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,918
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fashionista
Nearest frequency peer: fashionista (-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 « faunistique »
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 « faunistique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faunistique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fo.nis.tik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faunistique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faunistique is uncommon French at frequency #96,918 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fo.nis.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la faune.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for faunistique, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is faunistique, spelled F-A-U-N-I-S-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la faune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faunistique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En perspective d’un projet d’aménagement dont l’objectif principal est l’extension du golf de la Prèze, un inventaire faunistique de la région périphérique est engagé.
La forêt d'Orient et ses lacs sont entomologiquement méconnus, pourtant leur richesse faunistique est particulièrement marquée chez les familles de Coléoptères aquatiques ou ripicoles.
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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