philosophe
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,968
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
philosophe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui pratique la philosophie. Pronounced \fi.lɔ.zɔf\. It ranks #4,968 in French word frequency. Often confused with philosophy and philosophie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | philosophe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.lɔ.zɔf\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for philosophe is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.lɔ.zɔf\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,968 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for philosophe, with forms such as "hpilosophe", "phhilosophe", and "phillosophe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "philosophy", "philosophie", "philosophes", and more, 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 philosophe, spelled P-H-I-L-O-S-O-P-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne qui pratique la philosophie.
- 2Écrivain du dix-huitième siècle épris d’idées de réforme en matière religieuse, politique, sociale et morale.
- 3Celui qui cultive sa raison, qui conforme sa conduite à des principes et travaille à fortifier son âme contre les coups du sort ; personne qui a un comportement inspiré par la sagesse.
- 4Homme qui mène une vie tranquille et retirée, hors de l’embarras des affaires.
- 5Étudiant qui étudie la philosophie.
- 6Personnage rêveur, qui manque du sens des réalités.
- 7Plat à base de purée de pommes de terre et de viande hachée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hpilosophe,phhilosophe,phillosophe,philoosphe,philosohpe,philosopeh,philosophhe,philosopphe,philospohe,philossophe,philsoophe,phiolsophe,phliosophe,pihlosophe,pphilosophe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for philosophe
Misspelling Variants of "philosophe"
Frequency rank: #4,968 in French
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