Philémon
\fi.le.mɔ̃\
The verdict
“Philémon” is uncommon French (frequency #50,414 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,414
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dix-huitième livre du Nouveau Testament, avec seul un chapitre, composé de vingt-quatre versets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-philemon · Philémon · French
Philémon · rank #50,414 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,414
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peul
Nearest frequency peer: peul (-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 « Philémon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- percevant
percevant
49,590 corpus weight
- perpétrées
perpétrées
49,589 corpus weight
- peul
peul
49,588 corpus weight
- Philémon
Philémon
49,587 corpus weight
- photon
photon
49,586 corpus weight
- pil
pil
49,585 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Philémon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Philémon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fi.le.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Philémon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Philémon is uncommon French at frequency #50,414 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fi.le.mɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Philémon has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Philémon, spelled P-H-I-L-É-M-O-N.
Definition
- 1Dix-huitième livre du Nouveau Testament, avec seul un chapitre, composé de vingt-quatre versets.
- 2Nom du collaborateur de Paul.
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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