Fulgence
\fyl.ʒɑ̃s\
The verdict
“Fulgence” is uncommon French (frequency #57,285 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,285
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fulgence · Fulgence · French
Fulgence · rank #57,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,285
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fuego
Nearest frequency peer: fuego (-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 « Fulgence »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frottez
frottez
42,718 corpus weight
- fuego
fuego
42,717 corpus weight
- Fulgence
Fulgence
42,716 corpus weight
- furies
furies
42,715 corpus weight
- fécales
fécales
42,714 corpus weight
- félicitait
félicitait
42,713 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fulgence » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fulgence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fyl.ʒɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fulgence » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fulgence is uncommon French at frequency #57,285 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fyl.ʒɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Fulgence in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Fulgence, spelled F-U-L-G-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin français.
- 2Prénom féminin français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Fulgence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fulgence, mon amie, la violence de ton langage m’effraie pour ton avenir. Si jeune, et avec une raison si précoce, tu me sembles prédestinée à de grandes choses… Dieu veuille que tes qualités tournent au bien !…
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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