phébus
\fe.bys\
The verdict
“phébus” is uncommon French (frequency #67,772 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,772
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Style obscur et ampoulé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phebus · phébus · French
phébus · rank #67,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,772
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piana
Nearest frequency peer: piana (+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 « phébus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- permafrost
permafrost
32,232 corpus weight
- PFC
PFC
32,231 corpus weight
- phébus
phébus
32,229 corpus weight
- piana
piana
32,228 corpus weight
- pieuvres
pieuvres
32,227 corpus weight
- piler
piler
32,226 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phébus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phébus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fe.bys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phébus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phébus is uncommon French at frequency #67,772 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fe.bys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for phébus, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is phébus, spelled P-H-É-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Style obscur et ampoulé.
- 2Espèce de papillon, synonyme de petit apollon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how phébus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cela n’est pas intelligible, dit Philanthe. Non, répondit Eudoxe, ce n’est pas là tout à fait du galimatias, ce n’est que du phébus.
Son style n’est que du phébus, est d’un phébus ridicule.
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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