Fragonard
\fra.gɔ.naʁ\
The verdict
“Fragonard” is uncommon French (frequency #50,840 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,840
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fragonard · Fragonard · French
Fragonard · rank #50,840 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,840
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forçats
Nearest frequency peer: forçats (-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 « Fragonard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- formaldéhyde
formaldéhyde
49,164 corpus weight
- fortuna
fortuna
49,163 corpus weight
- forçats
forçats
49,162 corpus weight
- Fragonard
Fragonard
49,161 corpus weight
- Francofolies
Francofolies
49,159 corpus weight
- Freya
Freya
49,158 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fragonard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fragonard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fra.gɔ.naʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fragonard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fragonard is uncommon French at frequency #50,840 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fra.gɔ.naʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Fragonard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Fragonard, spelled F-R-A-G-O-N-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fragonard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
Les contributions réunies par Marie-Madeleine Fragonard et Jacques Berchtold suivent le récit qui est fait des guerres de religion jusqu’à la fin du XVIIIe siècle par l’histoire officielle et les échos pamphlétaires qu’elle produit, par la recherche érudite et la compilation des mémoires, par la fiction romanesque et le travestissement du grand genre épiq…
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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