Fontvieille
The verdict
“Fontvieille” is uncommon French (frequency #67,523 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,523
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fontvieille · Fontvieille · French
Fontvieille · rank #67,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,523
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flouter
Nearest frequency peer: flouter (-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 « Fontvieille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- filmez
filmez
32,481 corpus weight
- flouter
flouter
32,479 corpus weight
- Fontvieille
Fontvieille
32,478 corpus weight
- formerait
formerait
32,477 corpus weight
- foufoune
foufoune
32,476 corpus weight
- foutra
foutra
32,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fontvieille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fontvieille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fontvieille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fontvieille is uncommon French at frequency #67,523 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Fontvieille, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Fontvieille, spelled F-O-N-T-V-I-E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Fontvieille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Mas Saint-Paul à Fontvieille (Bouches-du-Rhône), les enfants placés en foyers vivent une parenthèse d’insouciance. « Nous accueillons des tout-petits à partir de trois ans et des plus grands jusqu’à 12 ans », raconte Rita Rebuffat, petit bout de femme au regard doux.
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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