igloo
\i.ɡlu\
The verdict
“igloo” is uncommon French (frequency #52,746 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,746
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitation hémisphérique faite de blocs de neige.
Corpus desk
Index FR-igloo · igloo · French
igloo · rank #52,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,746
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH héritent
Nearest frequency peer: héritent (-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 « igloo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- huilée
huilée
47,259 corpus weight
- héritent
héritent
47,256 corpus weight
- igloo
igloo
47,255 corpus weight
- iman
iman
47,254 corpus weight
- immigrées
immigrées
47,253 corpus weight
- immunisés
immunisés
47,252 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « igloo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | igloo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ɡlu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « igloo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
igloo is uncommon French at frequency #52,746 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.ɡlu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitation hémisphérique faite de blocs de neige.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for igloo, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is igloo, spelled I-G-L-O-O.
Definition
- 1Habitation hémisphérique faite de blocs de neige.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how igloo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kalumah […] lui montra la hutte d’un air satisfait. C’était un gros cône de neige, percé d’une étroite ouverture à son sommet qui donnait issue à la fumée d’un foyer intérieur, et dans lequel ces Esquimaux avaient creusé leur demeure passagère. Ces « snow-houses », qu’ils établissent avec une extrême rapidité, se nomment « igloo » dans la langue du pays.
Nous étions loin des igloos de neige, demeures primitives des Groenlandais.
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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