philologues
\fi.lɔ.lɔɡ\
The verdict
“philologues” is uncommon French (frequency #90,023 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,023
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de philologue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-philologues · philologues · French
philologues · rank #90,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,023
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Petry
Nearest frequency peer: Petry (-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 « philologues »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- persistaient
persistaient
9,981 corpus weight
- perturbante
perturbante
9,980 corpus weight
- Petry
Petry
9,979 corpus weight
- philologues
philologues
9,978 corpus weight
- phong
phong
9,977 corpus weight
- phosphoresc…
phosphorescent
9,976 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « philologues » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | philologues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.lɔ.lɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « philologues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
philologues is uncommon French at frequency #90,023 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.lɔ.lɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de philologue.".
philologues has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is philologues, spelled P-H-I-L-O-L-O-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de philologue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how philologues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En étudiant nos mots, les Allemands se sont laissés aller au plaisir et à l’orgueil de les germaniser, comme les philologues anglais, comme le docteur Trench, par exemple, s’efforcent de saxoniser la langue anglaise, qui, cependant, est aux trois quarts française, si l’on interroge à fond notre vieux langage et le patois normand.
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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