Philippa
\fi.li.pa\
The verdict
“Philippa” is uncommon French (frequency #84,167 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,167
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-philippa · Philippa · French
Philippa · rank #84,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,167
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH phaéton
Nearest frequency peer: phaéton (-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 « Philippa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pestilence
pestilence
15,837 corpus weight
- pharmaceuti…
pharmaceutical
15,836 corpus weight
- phaéton
phaéton
15,835 corpus weight
- Philippa
Philippa
15,834 corpus weight
- photomontag…
photomontages
15,833 corpus weight
- Picart
Picart
15,832 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Philippa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Philippa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fi.li.pa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Philippa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Philippa is uncommon French at frequency #84,167 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fi.li.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Philippa has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is Philippa, spelled P-H-I-L-I-P-P-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Philippa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Philippa, d’abord éduquée par une gouvernante, puis élève à la St George’s school d’Ascot, s’initie aux sciences politiques, à la philosophie et à l’économie au Somerville College d’Oxford, où étudie également la future philosophe et romancière Iris Murdoch.
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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