idols
\aj.dɔl\
The verdict
“idols” is uncommon French (frequency #83,948 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,948
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de idol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-idols · idols · French
idols · rank #83,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,948
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ibidem
Nearest frequency peer: ibidem (-2 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 « idols »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hypocrisies
hypocrisies
16,058 corpus weight
- ibidem
ibidem
16,055 corpus weight
- idols
idols
16,053 corpus weight
- ignames
ignames
16,051 corpus weight
- ignoriez
ignoriez
16,050 corpus weight
- imaginatifs
imaginatifs
16,049 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « idols » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idols |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aj.dɔl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « idols » en français
Rare enough to double-check
idols is uncommon French at frequency #83,948 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aj.dɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de idol.".
idols doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is idols, spelled I-D-O-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de idol.
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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