funérarium

\fy.ne.ʁa.ʁjɔm\

/\fy.ne.ʁa.ʁjɔm\/ noun

The verdict

“funérarium” is uncommon French (frequency #86,727 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,727
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où se retrouvent les proches d’une personne décédée avant ses obsèques.

Corpus desk

Index FR-funerarium · funérarium · French

funérarium · rank #86,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,727
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH Frydman

Nearest frequency peer: Frydman (-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 « funérarium »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « funérarium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for funérarium
PropertyValue
Headwordfunérarium
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fy.ne.ʁa.ʁjɔm\
Letters10
Frequency rank#86,727
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « funérarium » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).funérariumtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Frydman » (#86,726), « fureurs » (#86,728), « Froger » (#86,725). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « funérarium » est au #86,727. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

funérarium is uncommon French at frequency #86,727 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.ne.ʁa.ʁjɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lieu où se retrouvent les proches d’une personne décédée avant ses obsèques.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for funérarium, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is funérarium, spelled F-U-N-É-R-A-R-I-U-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu où se retrouvent les proches d’une personne décédée avant ses obsèques.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how funérarium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dès que les gens sont entrés et qu’ils aperçoivent par-delà le hall la pénombre du funérarium, ils se ravisent, se demandent s’ils ont bien fait de venir, commencent à se dire qu’ils feraient mieux de s'en retourner.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "funérarium"?
"funérarium" is spelled F-U-N-É-R-A-R-I-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \fy.ne.ʁa.ʁjɔm\.
What does "funérarium" mean?
As a noun, "funérarium" means: Lieu où se retrouvent les proches d’une personne décédée avant ses obsèques.
How do you pronounce "funérarium"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "funérarium" is \fy.ne.ʁa.ʁjɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "funérarium" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "funérarium", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list