frivolité

\fʁi.vɔ.li.te\

/\fʁi.vɔ.li.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“frivolité” is uncommon French (frequency #65,962 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,962
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est frivole, qui n’est pas important.

Corpus desk

Index FR-frivolite · frivolité · French

frivolité · rank #65,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,962
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fried

Nearest frequency peer: fried (-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 « frivolité »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frivolité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for frivolité
PropertyValue
Headwordfrivolité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fʁi.vɔ.li.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#65,962
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « frivolité » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.frivolitétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « fried » (#65,961), « fromagère » (#65,963), « fumeux » (#65,964). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « frivolité » est au #65,962. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

frivolité is uncommon French at frequency #65,962 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁi.vɔ.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for frivolité, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is frivolité, spelled F-R-I-V-O-L-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère de ce qui est frivole, qui n’est pas important.
  2. 2
    Choses frivoles.
  3. 3
    Caractère de celui qui est frivole.
  4. 4
    Dentelle de fil faite à la main, à l’aide d’une navette.
  5. 5
    Testicules d’animaux (agneau, bélier, bœuf). On parle aussi de rognons blancs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how frivolité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La frivolité de ces amusements.
  2. Il y a bien de la frivolité dans cet ouvrage.

Synonyms

bagatellerognon blancanimellechoesel

This word in other languages

frivolity(English)ringorrangos(Español)frivolidade(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "frivolité"?
"frivolité" is spelled F-R-I-V-O-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁi.vɔ.li.te\.
What does "frivolité" mean?
As a noun, "frivolité" means: Caractère de ce qui est frivole, qui n’est pas important.
How do you pronounce "frivolité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "frivolité" is \fʁi.vɔ.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "frivolité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "frivolité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fromagère#65,963félicitée#65,966Francoeur#65,957glycogène#65,974

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list