Phobos
\fɔ.bɔs\
The verdict
“Phobos” is uncommon French (frequency #79,611 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,611
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dieu de la peur, fils d’Arès et d’Aphrodite, frère de Déimos et d’Harmonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phobos · Phobos · French
Phobos · rank #79,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,611
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pharmacovigil…
Nearest frequency peer: pharmacovigilance (-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 « Phobos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Perthes
Perthes
20,393 corpus weight
- pharmacovig…
pharmacovigilance
20,391 corpus weight
- Phobos
Phobos
20,390 corpus weight
- piel
piel
20,389 corpus weight
- pilotant
pilotant
20,388 corpus weight
- pilotent
pilotent
20,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Phobos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Phobos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.bɔs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Phobos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Phobos is uncommon French at frequency #79,611 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fɔ.bɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Phobos in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Phobos, spelled P-H-O-B-O-S.
Definition
- 1Dieu de la peur, fils d’Arès et d’Aphrodite, frère de Déimos et d’Harmonie.
- 2Satellite naturel de la planète Mars.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Phobos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Phobos, la plus grosse des deux lunes de Mars, a la forme d’un patatoïde et mesure environ 28 km x 23 km x 20 km. Elle est dominée par le cratère Stickney […].
Synonyms
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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