fibules
\fi.byl\
The verdict
“fibules” is uncommon French (frequency #92,731 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,731
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fibule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fibules · fibules · French
fibules · rank #92,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,731
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH festivité
Nearest frequency peer: festivité (-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 « fibules »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ferrais
ferrais
7,273 corpus weight
- Ferraro
Ferraro
7,272 corpus weight
- festivité
festivité
7,271 corpus weight
- fibules
fibules
7,270 corpus weight
- filiformes
filiformes
7,269 corpus weight
- FINUL
FINUL
7,268 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fibules » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fibules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.byl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fibules » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fibules is uncommon French at frequency #92,731 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.byl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fibule.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fibules in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 fibules, spelled F-I-B-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fibule.
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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