philtre
\filtʁ\
The verdict
“philtre” is uncommon French (frequency #63,995 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,995
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Breuvage, drogue, qu’on suppose propre à donner de l’amour, ou, en général, à provoquer quelque passion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-philtre · philtre · French
philtre · rank #63,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,995
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH phrygien
Nearest frequency peer: phrygien (+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 « philtre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peron
peron
36,010 corpus weight
- Peru
Peru
36,009 corpus weight
- peuplade
peuplade
36,008 corpus weight
- philtre
philtre
36,006 corpus weight
- phrygien
phrygien
36,005 corpus weight
- piquette
piquette
36,002 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « philtre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | philtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \filtʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « philtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
philtre is uncommon French at frequency #63,995 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \filtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for philtre in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is philtre, spelled P-H-I-L-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Breuvage, drogue, qu’on suppose propre à donner de l’amour, ou, en général, à provoquer quelque passion.
- 2Chez l’Humain, repli en forme de gouttière qui relie la base du nez à la lèvre supérieure, au niveau de l’arc de Cupidon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how philtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On peut donc continuer à boire de l'eau de Seltz sans crainte, […]. C'est un digestif, un stimulant de l'appétit, un philtre merveilleux qui donne à un vin médiocre les qualités d'un bon cru, et fait plus contre l'ivrognerie que toutes les Sociétés de tempérance.
Il avait des dollars dans sa poche ; la nuit s’ouvrait, tous les philtres allaient couler, il allait plaire à tous et toutes. La drogue qui l’isolait de tout contact, qui le soustrayait à toute épreuve, l’avait confirmé dans cette imagination immobile.
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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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