fragmentaire
\fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“fragmentaire” is uncommon French (frequency #57,962 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,962
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est à l’état de fragments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fragmentaire · fragmentaire · French
fragmentaire · rank #57,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,962
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fossoyeurs
Nearest frequency peer: fossoyeurs (-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 « fragmentaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- follet
follet
42,042 corpus weight
- forfaiture
forfaiture
42,041 corpus weight
- fossoyeurs
fossoyeurs
42,040 corpus weight
- fragmentaire
fragmentaire
42,039 corpus weight
- frigorifiqu…
frigorifiques
42,036 corpus weight
- frémont
frémont
42,035 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fragmentaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fragmentaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fragmentaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fragmentaire is uncommon French at frequency #57,962 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est à l’état de fragments.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fragmentaire in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fragmentaire, spelled F-R-A-G-M-E-N-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est à l’état de fragments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fragmentaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Afin de couvrir les sépultures, ils se sont servi de tuiles, parfois entières, souvent fragmentaires.
Ainsi à Lyoffans, dans la vallée du Rabin, affluent de l'Ognon, cours d’eau voisin de la Lanterne, nous avons pu observer parmi les moissons quelques individus assez fragmentaires de l'association à Cicendia filiformis.
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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