franques
\fʁɑ̃k\
The verdict
“franques” is uncommon French (frequency #92,753 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,753
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de franc (dans le sens de « qui concerne les Francs »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-franques · franques · French
franques · rank #92,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,753
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH franchouillard
Nearest frequency peer: franchouillard (-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 « franques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Franceville
Franceville
7,251 corpus weight
- Franchet
Franchet
7,250 corpus weight
- franchouill…
franchouillard
7,249 corpus weight
- franques
franques
7,248 corpus weight
- frc
frc
7,247 corpus weight
- freeway
freeway
7,246 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « franques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | franques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃k\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « franques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
franques is uncommon French at frequency #92,753 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁɑ̃k\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de franc (dans le sens de « qui concerne les Francs »).".
Zero misspellings are on record for franques in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is franques, spelled F-R-A-N-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de franc (dans le sens de « qui concerne les Francs »).
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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