phénomène
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,008
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
phénomène is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fait observable, ordinaire, remarquable ou extraordinaire. Pronounced \fe.nɔ.mɛn\. It ranks #2,008 in French word frequency. Often confused with phénomènes and phénoménal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phénomène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fe.nɔ.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for phénomène is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fe.nɔ.mɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,008 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for phénomène, with forms such as "hpénomène", "phenomene", and "phhénomène". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "phénomènes", "phénoménal", "phénoménale", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is phénomène, spelled P-H-É-N-O-M-È-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fait observable, ordinaire, remarquable ou extraordinaire.
- 2Ensemble de signes observables pour diagnostiquer une pathologie.
- 3Objet tel qu’il est perçu par un sujet conscient.
- 4Chose qui surprend par sa nouveauté ou par sa rareté.
- 5Personne qui surprend par ses actions, par ses vertus, par son talent, etc.
- 6Curiosité que l’on exhibe dans les foires.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hpénomène,phenomene,phhénomène,phnéomène,phénmoène,phénnomène,phénommène,phénomnèe,phénomèen,phénomènne,phénoèmne,phéonmène,pphénomène,péhnomène
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "phénomène"
Frequency rank: #2,008 in French
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