formol
\fɔʁ.mɔl\
The verdict
“formol” is uncommon French (frequency #50,221 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,221
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Solution aqueuse contenant 37% (masse/masse) d’aldéhyde formique (formaldéhyde), employée comme antiseptique et désinfectant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formol · formol · French
formol · rank #50,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,221
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 137,178
- PHOTO-FINISH foresterie
Nearest frequency peer: foresterie (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “formol”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Flavie
Flavie
49,783 corpus weight
- Flavius
Flavius
49,782 corpus weight
- foresterie
foresterie
49,781 corpus weight
- formol
formol
49,780 corpus weight
- fracturée
fracturée
49,779 corpus weight
- fragilisée
fragilisée
49,778 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “formol” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.mɔl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “formol” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
formol is uncommon French at frequency #50,221 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔʁ.mɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Solution aqueuse contenant 37% (masse/masse) d’aldéhyde formique (formaldéhyde), employée comme antiseptique et désinfectant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for formol in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is formol, spelled F-O-R-M-O-L.
Definition
- 1Solution aqueuse contenant 37% (masse/masse) d’aldéhyde formique (formaldéhyde), employée comme antiseptique et désinfectant.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.