ficelée
\fi.sə.le\
The verdict
“ficelée” is uncommon French (frequency #65,158 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,158
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de ficelé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ficelee · ficelée · French
ficelée · rank #65,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,158
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH festoyer
Nearest frequency peer: festoyer (-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 « ficelée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fendi
fendi
34,846 corpus weight
- fennec
fennec
34,845 corpus weight
- festoyer
festoyer
34,844 corpus weight
- ficelée
ficelée
34,843 corpus weight
- fiente
fiente
34,842 corpus weight
- Filippi
Filippi
34,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ficelée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ficelée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fi.sə.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ficelée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ficelée is uncommon French at frequency #65,158 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fi.sə.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de ficelé.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ficelée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ficelée, spelled F-I-C-E-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de ficelé.
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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