froidure
\fʁwa.dyʁ\
The verdict
“froidure” is uncommon French (frequency #88,649 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,649
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Température basse de l'atmosphère. Manifestation(s) particulière(s) de cette température.
Corpus desk
Index FR-froidure · froidure · French
froidure · rank #88,649 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,649
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH friant
Nearest frequency peer: friant (-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 « froidure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frap
frap
11,355 corpus weight
- fraudent
fraudent
11,354 corpus weight
- friant
friant
11,353 corpus weight
- froidure
froidure
11,352 corpus weight
- frondeuse
frondeuse
11,351 corpus weight
- frémissemen…
frémissements
11,350 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « froidure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | froidure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁwa.dyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « froidure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
froidure is uncommon French at frequency #88,649 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁwa.dyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for froidure, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is froidure, spelled F-R-O-I-D-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Température basse de l'atmosphère. Manifestation(s) particulière(s) de cette température.
- 2L’hiver.
- 3Lésion de la peau due au froid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how froidure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leur pelage était encore roux en dessus, et d'un gris jaunâtre en dessous.[…]. Il fallait attendre et les laisser «mûrir», […], c'est-à-dire blanchir sous la froidure de l'hiver.
Ma maison abandonnée s’est engourdie dans la froidure.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).