Fulda
The verdict
“Fulda” is uncommon French (frequency #93,796 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,796
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cours d’eau d’Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fulda · Fulda · French
Fulda · rank #93,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,796
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH funeral
Nearest frequency peer: funeral (+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 « Fulda »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- FSF
FSF
6,207 corpus weight
- Fulda
Fulda
6,205 corpus weight
- funeral
funeral
6,204 corpus weight
- fustigeait
fustigeait
6,203 corpus weight
- GAEC
GAEC
6,202 corpus weight
- gah
gah
6,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fulda » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fulda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fulda » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fulda is uncommon French at frequency #93,796 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Fulda, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Fulda, spelled F-U-L-D-A.
Definition
- 1Cours d’eau d’Allemagne.
- 2Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Hesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fulda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Fulda traverse le land de Hesse avant de former la Weser avec la Werra.
En 1806, Napoléon Ier annexa la province de Fulda au royaume de Westphalie, avant de la rattacher en 1810 au grand-duché de Francfort. Lors du congrès de Vienne (1815), et après une année d'administration prussienne, elle fut rattachée au Grand-duché de Hesse.
This word in other languages
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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