homophones
\ɔ.mɔ.fɔn\
The verdict
“homophones” is uncommon French (frequency #77,590 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,590
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de homophone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-homophones · homophones · French
homophones · rank #77,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,590
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homa
Nearest frequency peer: homa (-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 « homophones »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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22,413 corpus weight
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homa
22,412 corpus weight
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homophones
22,411 corpus weight
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hondo
22,410 corpus weight
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honorait
22,409 corpus weight
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hosanna
22,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « homophones » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homophones |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.mɔ.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « homophones » en français
Rare enough to double-check
homophones is uncommon French at frequency #77,590 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.mɔ.fɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de homophone.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for homophones, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is homophones, spelled H-O-M-O-P-H-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de homophone.
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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