frêles
\fʁɛl\
The verdict
“frêles” is uncommon French (frequency #65,173 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,173
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de frêle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-freles · frêles · French
frêles · rank #65,173 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,173
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frénétiques
Nearest frequency peer: frénétiques (-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 « frêles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fredonner
fredonner
34,833 corpus weight
- frisons
frisons
34,831 corpus weight
- frénétiques
frénétiques
34,829 corpus weight
- frêles
frêles
34,828 corpus weight
- fuser
fuser
34,825 corpus weight
- futon
futon
34,824 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frêles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frêles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frêles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frêles is uncommon French at frequency #65,173 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de frêle.".
frêles has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is frêles, spelled F-R-Ê-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de frêle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how frêles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir ainsi payé sa dette à sa position, il s’élève contre la possibilité de créer une religion nouvelle, appelle les théophilanthropes, qui veulent théophilanthropiser le peuple, les frêles rejetons des unitaires ; il se moque du calendrier républicain et de son décadi.
Elle se contente du Clic-Clac du salon, qu’elle ne déplie que lorsqu’elle s’est assurée que son petit est bien endormi avec son Toto dans ses bras frêles.
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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