frelon
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,307
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
frelon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de grosse guêpe, de nom scientifique Vespa crabro. Pronounced \fʁə.lɔ̃\. Often confused with frérot and frelons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frelon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁə.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for frelon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁə.lɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,307 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for frelon, with forms such as "ferlon", "ffrelon", and "frellon". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "frérot", "frelons", "frein", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is frelon, spelled F-R-E-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de grosse guêpe, de nom scientifique Vespa crabro.
- 2Gens inutiles à la société.
- 3Gens incapables et envieux qui décrient les ouvrages d’autrui et qui les pillent.
- 4Frère, frérot (pour désigner une personne proche, sans nécessairement un lien familial).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ferlon,ffrelon,frellon,frelno,frelonn,freoln,frleon,frrelon,rfelon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for frelon
Misspelling Variants of "frelon"
Frequency rank: #39,307 in French
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