rhapsodie
\ʁap.sɔ.di\
The verdict
“rhapsodie” is uncommon French (frequency #84,254 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,254
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chez les Grecs, morceaux détachés de l’Iliade et de l’Odyssée, que chantaient les rhapsodes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rhapsodie · rhapsodie · French
rhapsodie · rank #84,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,254
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Reynders
Nearest frequency peer: Reynders (-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 « rhapsodie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- revoyais
revoyais
15,750 corpus weight
- rewind
rewind
15,749 corpus weight
- Reynders
Reynders
15,748 corpus weight
- rhapsodie
rhapsodie
15,747 corpus weight
- rid
rid
15,746 corpus weight
- rigidités
rigidités
15,745 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rhapsodie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhapsodie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁap.sɔ.di\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rhapsodie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rhapsodie is uncommon French at frequency #84,254 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁap.sɔ.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for rhapsodie in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rhapsodie, spelled R-H-A-P-S-O-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Chez les Grecs, morceaux détachés de l’Iliade et de l’Odyssée, que chantaient les rhapsodes.
- 2Mauvais ramas, soit de vers, soit de prose.
- 3Mauvais ramas de choses.
- 4Œuvre composée de plusieurs motifs présentés les uns après les autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rhapsodie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai jamais vu pareille rhapsodie.
Tout son discours n’était qu’une mauvaise rhapsodie.
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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