frontera
[fɾun.ˈte.ɾə]
The verdict
“frontera” is uncommon French (frequency #76,596 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,596
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frontière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frontera · frontera · French
frontera · rank #76,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,596
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fripouille
Nearest frequency peer: fripouille (-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 « frontera »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fracassantes
fracassantes
23,409 corpus weight
- fretin
fretin
23,408 corpus weight
- fripouille
fripouille
23,406 corpus weight
- frontera
frontera
23,405 corpus weight
- Fukuoka
Fukuoka
23,403 corpus weight
- fustigeant
fustigeant
23,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frontera » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frontera |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɾun.ˈte.ɾə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frontera » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frontera is uncommon French at frequency #76,596 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [fɾun.ˈte.ɾə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
frontera doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is frontera, spelled F-R-O-N-T-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1Frontière.
- 2Façade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frontera appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Els agents de fronteres van demanar a l'opositor “que els acompanyés a un lloc per ‘aclarir les circumstanciès del creuament de la frontera estatal’”, esplicava en directe per Twitter la seva portaveu, Kira Iàrmish, que viatjava amb ell.
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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