Phalsbourg
\fals.buʁ\
The verdict
“Phalsbourg” is uncommon French (frequency #78,737 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,737
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Moselle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phalsbourg · Phalsbourg · French
Phalsbourg · rank #78,737 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,737
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PGE
Nearest frequency peer: PGE (-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 « Phalsbourg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Perrotin
Perrotin
21,269 corpus weight
- PGE
PGE
21,265 corpus weight
- Phalsbourg
Phalsbourg
21,264 corpus weight
- Philippes
Philippes
21,263 corpus weight
- pinacothèque
pinacothèque
21,260 corpus weight
- poa
poa
21,259 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Phalsbourg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Phalsbourg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fals.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Phalsbourg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Phalsbourg is uncommon French at frequency #78,737 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fals.buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Phalsbourg in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Phalsbourg, spelled P-H-A-L-S-B-O-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Moselle.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Moselle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Phalsbourg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Empereur ne s’arrêta pas à Phalsbourg ; tandis qu’il courait déjà sur la route de Saverne, le canon tirait ses derniers coups.
Dans mon école, sous la IVᵉ, on en faisait aussi la lecture à voix haute : « Par un épais brouillard du mois de septembre deux enfants, deux frères, sortaient de la ville de Phalsbourg en Lorraine. » Une façon de s’initier à la France, à ses provinces, aux grands hommes, à l’amour de la patrie.
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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