fribourgeois
\fʁi.buʁ.ʒwa\
The verdict
“fribourgeois” is uncommon French (frequency #66,748 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,748
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la ville de Fribourg ou la ville de Fribourg-en-Brisgau, ou aux Fribourgeois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fribourgeois · fribourgeois · French
fribourgeois · rank #66,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,748
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fracturer
Nearest frequency peer: fracturer (-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 « fribourgeois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- foreuse
foreuse
33,256 corpus weight
- fractal
fractal
33,255 corpus weight
- fracturer
fracturer
33,254 corpus weight
- fribourgeois
fribourgeois
33,253 corpus weight
- fully
fully
33,252 corpus weight
- furieuses
furieuses
33,251 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fribourgeois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fribourgeois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁi.buʁ.ʒwa\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #66,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fribourgeois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fribourgeois is uncommon French at frequency #66,748 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁi.buʁ.ʒwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la ville de Fribourg ou la ville de Fribourg-en-Brisgau, ou aux Fribourgeois.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fribourgeois in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fribourgeois, spelled F-R-I-B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la ville de Fribourg ou la ville de Fribourg-en-Brisgau, ou aux Fribourgeois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fribourgeois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme on dit chez nous, le public fut «déçu en bien». Sauf peut-être le critique musical dépêché sur place par «La Liberté», le quotidien fribourgeois, et qui titra le lendemain sur cinq colonnes: «Pitié Seigneur, ils ne savent pas ce qu'ils font!»
Et on découvre aujourd'hui qu'une étude a été «schubladisée» par le Conseil d'Etat depuis 2015 tout simplement parce qu’elle démontre à l’évidence que c’est toute la fonction publique et parapublique fribourgeoise (ça fait beaucoup d’électeurs) qui bénéficie de conditions salariales privilégiées si on les compare aux statistiques officielles qui année apr…
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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