Fibonacci
\fi.bo.nat.ʃi\
The verdict
“Fibonacci” is uncommon French (frequency #63,751 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,751
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille italien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fibonacci · Fibonacci · French
Fibonacci · rank #63,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,751
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH festins
Nearest frequency peer: festins (-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 « Fibonacci »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fermoir
fermoir
36,253 corpus weight
- fesch
fesch
36,252 corpus weight
- festins
festins
36,251 corpus weight
- Fibonacci
Fibonacci
36,250 corpus weight
- fibreux
fibreux
36,249 corpus weight
- figurée
figurée
36,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fibonacci » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fibonacci |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fi.bo.nat.ʃi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fibonacci » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fibonacci is uncommon French at frequency #63,751 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fi.bo.nat.ʃi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille italien.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Fibonacci, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Fibonacci, spelled F-I-B-O-N-A-C-C-I.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille italien.
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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