formica
\fɔʁ.mi.ka\
The verdict
“formica” is uncommon French (frequency #65,163 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,163
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélaminé thermorésistant recouvrant généralement du mobilier de cuisine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formica · formica · French
formica · rank #65,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,163
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flows
Nearest frequency peer: flows (-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 « formica »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Filippi
Filippi
34,841 corpus weight
- filloniste
filloniste
34,840 corpus weight
- flows
flows
34,839 corpus weight
- formica
formica
34,838 corpus weight
- fors
fors
34,837 corpus weight
- franchira
franchira
34,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « formica » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formica |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.mi.ka\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « formica » en français
Rare enough to double-check
formica is uncommon French at frequency #65,163 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔʁ.mi.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mélaminé thermorésistant recouvrant généralement du mobilier de cuisine.".
formica doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is formica, spelled F-O-R-M-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Mélaminé thermorésistant recouvrant généralement du mobilier de cuisine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how formica appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vraie métamorphose c’était celle de la maison, des deux pièces au parquet vitrifié, au mobilier tout neuf, de la cuisine où régnait l’ordre anguleux du formica.
Ceci a pour origine une différence de rapport à la culture, comme dans les années soixante quand les plus âgés cédaient leurs armoires afin de s’offrir du mobilier en formica.
This word in other languages
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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