frivoles
\fʁi.vɔl\
The verdict
“frivoles” is uncommon French (frequency #61,545 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,545
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de frivole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frivoles · frivoles · French
frivoles · rank #61,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,545
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fringants
Nearest frequency peer: fringants (-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 « frivoles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fraternités
fraternités
38,459 corpus weight
- frei
frei
38,458 corpus weight
- fringants
fringants
38,457 corpus weight
- frivoles
frivoles
38,456 corpus weight
- Frontignan
Frontignan
38,455 corpus weight
- frontons
frontons
38,454 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frivoles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frivoles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁi.vɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frivoles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frivoles is uncommon French at frequency #61,545 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁi.vɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de frivole.".
frivoles has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 frivoles, spelled F-R-I-V-O-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de frivole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frivoles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous voici loin de l’Éléonore de Parny; aux grécités badines et frivoles, succède l’expression mystérieuse de ce que l’âme a de plus éthéré et de plus inexprimable.
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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