Funchal
\fun.ʃal\
The verdict
“Funchal” is uncommon French (frequency #67,535 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,535
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Municipalité portugaise située à Madère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-funchal · Funchal · French
Funchal · rank #67,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,535
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fringue
Nearest frequency peer: fringue (-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 « Funchal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Freund
Freund
32,468 corpus weight
- fringue
fringue
32,467 corpus weight
- Funchal
Funchal
32,466 corpus weight
- galeux
galeux
32,463 corpus weight
- galleries
galleries
32,462 corpus weight
- garagistes
garagistes
32,461 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Funchal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Funchal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fun.ʃal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Funchal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Funchal is uncommon French at frequency #67,535 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fun.ʃal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Municipalité portugaise située à Madère.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Funchal, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Funchal, spelled F-U-N-C-H-A-L.
Definition
- 1Municipalité portugaise située à Madère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Funchal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, la ville dispose de deux téléphériques. L’un relie Funchal au village de Monte, l’autre vous transporte du Jardin botanique à Babosas.
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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