photograph
\ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːf\
The verdict
“photograph” is uncommon French (frequency #86,017 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,017
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Photographie, photo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-photograph · photograph · French
photograph · rank #86,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,017
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH phosphorique
Nearest frequency peer: phosphorique (-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 « photograph »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- petrol
petrol
13,989 corpus weight
- philippiens
philippiens
13,987 corpus weight
- phosphorique
phosphorique
13,985 corpus weight
- photograph
photograph
13,984 corpus weight
- picpus
picpus
13,982 corpus weight
- plafonnées
plafonnées
13,979 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « photograph » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | photograph |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːf\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « photograph » en français
Rare enough to double-check
photograph is uncommon French at frequency #86,017 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Photographie, photo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for photograph in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is photograph, spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H.
Definition
- 1Photographie, photo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how photograph appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Will you please take a photograph of me?
Seventy-five women are arrested. The following day a photograph appears on the front page of the Daily Mirror of a young woman, flanked by a pair of police officers. Her skirts and shawl in disarray, her hair wild. She appears to be shouting. Her name is Dora Thewlis, a weaver in a Huddersfield mill. She is just sixteen years old.
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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