fenouillet
\fə.nu.jɛ\
The verdict
“fenouillet” is uncommon French (frequency #76,567 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,567
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de pomme qui a le goût du fenouil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fenouillet · fenouillet · French
fenouillet · rank #76,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,567
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fede
Nearest frequency peer: fede (-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 « fenouillet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fatoumata
Fatoumata
23,437 corpus weight
- faussées
faussées
23,436 corpus weight
- fede
fede
23,435 corpus weight
- fenouillet
fenouillet
23,434 corpus weight
- fermentée
fermentée
23,433 corpus weight
- fertiliser
fertiliser
23,431 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fenouillet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fenouillet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fə.nu.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fenouillet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fenouillet is uncommon French at frequency #76,567 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fə.nu.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de pomme qui a le goût du fenouil.".
fenouillet has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fenouillet, spelled F-E-N-O-U-I-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Variété de pomme qui a le goût du fenouil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fenouillet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pomme violette. Espèce de gros fenouillet, grosse, presque ronde, mêlée de rouge du côté du soleil ; …. (« L'agronome ou dictionnaire portatif du cultivateur », Rouen, 1787)
Dans le nombre des pommes, les seules bonnes à garder pour l’hiver sont : le calville blanc (qui dure souvent jusqu’en avril) ; la pomme violette (qui se conserve jusqu’au mois de mai) ; le fenouillet jaune (qui dure jusqu’en mars) ; […]
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).