rhapsody
\ˈɹæp.sə.di\
The verdict
“rhapsody” is uncommon French (frequency #56,229 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,229
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rhapsodie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rhapsody · rhapsody · French
rhapsody · rank #56,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,229
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retrouveraient
Nearest frequency peer: retrouveraient (-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 « rhapsody »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retombera
retombera
43,775 corpus weight
- retournerons
retournerons
43,774 corpus weight
- retrouverai…
retrouveraient
43,773 corpus weight
- rhapsody
rhapsody
43,772 corpus weight
- rings
rings
43,771 corpus weight
- rocaille
rocaille
43,770 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rhapsody » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhapsody |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹæp.sə.di\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rhapsody » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rhapsody is uncommon French at frequency #56,229 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹæp.sə.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rhapsodie.".
rhapsody doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rhapsody, spelled R-H-A-P-S-O-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Rhapsodie.
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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