phrygien
\fʁi.ʒjɛ̃\
The verdict
“phrygien” is uncommon French (frequency #63,996 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,996
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Phrygie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phrygien · phrygien · French
phrygien · rank #63,996 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,996
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH philtre
Nearest frequency peer: philtre (-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 « phrygien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- pivoines
pivoines
36,001 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phrygien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phrygien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁi.ʒjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phrygien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phrygien is uncommon French at frequency #63,996 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁi.ʒjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
phrygien doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is phrygien, spelled P-H-R-Y-G-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Phrygie.
- 2Qualifiait un mode musical fier et guerrier qui occupait le milieu entre le lydien et le dorien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how phrygien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mode phrygien.
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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