fricassée
\fʁi.ka.se\
The verdict
“fricassée” is uncommon French (frequency #83,898 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,898
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Viande fricassée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fricassee · fricassée · French
fricassée · rank #83,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,898
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH friables
Nearest frequency peer: friables (-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 « fricassée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- freinages
freinages
16,106 corpus weight
- Freitas
Freitas
16,105 corpus weight
- friables
friables
16,104 corpus weight
- fricassée
fricassée
16,103 corpus weight
- fulgurance
fulgurance
16,101 corpus weight
- fulgurants
fulgurants
16,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fricassée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fricassée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁi.ka.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fricassée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fricassée is uncommon French at frequency #83,898 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁi.ka.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fricassée, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fricassée, spelled F-R-I-C-A-S-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Viande fricassée.
- 2Pot-pourri musical de pièces polyphoniques, aussi appelées quodlibet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fricassée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gouttez-moi ce carré de mouton au sarrasin, […]. C'est autre chose que les fricassées qu'on accommode chez vos grands seigneurs avec les laissés pour compte du marché.
– C’est pourtant vrai, répondait Honoré. Il faudra que je demande à Clotilde ce qu’elle pense du général Boulanger. Reprends donc de la fricassée... mais si ! deux cuillerées, avec un bon coup de vin pour la pousser dans le fin fond. Tripes sur tripes. Rien de pareil contre les aigreurs. »
This word in other languages
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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