homonymie
\ɔ.mɔ.ni.mi\
The verdict
“homonymie” is uncommon French (frequency #59,347 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,347
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relation entre plusieurs formes linguistiques ayant le même signifiant graphique (homographe) ou phonique (homophone) et des signifiés totalement différents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-homonymie · homonymie · French
homonymie · rank #59,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,347
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hol
Nearest frequency peer: hol (-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 « homonymie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hocha
hocha
40,657 corpus weight
- Hohenzollern
Hohenzollern
40,656 corpus weight
- hol
hol
40,655 corpus weight
- homonymie
homonymie
40,654 corpus weight
- homérique
homérique
40,653 corpus weight
- honoris
honoris
40,652 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « homonymie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homonymie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.mɔ.ni.mi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « homonymie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
homonymie is uncommon French at frequency #59,347 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.mɔ.ni.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for homonymie, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is homonymie, spelled H-O-M-O-N-Y-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Relation entre plusieurs formes linguistiques ayant le même signifiant graphique (homographe) ou phonique (homophone) et des signifiés totalement différents.
- 2Formes linguistiques qui ont entre elles cette relation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homonymie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est souvent délicat de distinguer entre les cas d'homonymie et de polysémie.
Inversement, le signalement intervient quelquefois pour prouver la non identité, à la requête de personnes honorables (victimes soit d’un faussaire, soit d’une homonymie malheureuse), qui demandent que l’on efface de leur casier des condamnations indûment inscrites.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).