frigidaire
\fʁi.ʒi.dɛʁ\
The verdict
“frigidaire” is uncommon French (frequency #50,227 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,227
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Par antonomase) Réfrigérateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frigidaire · frigidaire · French
frigidaire · rank #50,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,227
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frimaire
Nearest frequency peer: frimaire (+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 « frigidaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fragilisée
fragilisée
49,778 corpus weight
- francophile
francophile
49,777 corpus weight
- frigidaire
frigidaire
49,774 corpus weight
- frimaire
frimaire
49,773 corpus weight
- Fulton
Fulton
49,772 corpus weight
- fusain
fusain
49,770 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frigidaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frigidaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁi.ʒi.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frigidaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frigidaire is uncommon French at frequency #50,227 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁi.ʒi.dɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Par antonomase) Réfrigérateur.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for frigidaire, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 frigidaire, spelled F-R-I-G-I-D-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1(Par antonomase) Réfrigérateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how frigidaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd’hui, si l’on voit encore des feux de bagasse, des sébis au pétrole, il y a néanmoins l’électricité, et le frigidaire a vaincu le soleil.
[…] il revenait vite aux drames du frigidaire détraqué et de l’ascenseur en panne.
Synonyms
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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