fai
[ˈfai]
The verdict
“fai” is uncommon German (frequency #71,315 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,315
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs fare
Corpus desk
Index DE-fai · fai · German
fai · rank #71,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,315
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fahrstunden
Nearest frequency peer: Fahrstunden (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „fai“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- extravagante
extravagante
28,689 corpus weight
- Fahrschulen
Fahrschulen
28,688 corpus weight
- Fahrstunden
Fahrstunden
28,687 corpus weight
- fai
fai
28,686 corpus weight
- fal
fal
28,685 corpus weight
- Fanatikern
Fanatikern
28,684 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „fai“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fai |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfai] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „fai“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
fai is uncommon German at frequency #71,315 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfai]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fai, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is fai, spelled F-A-I.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs fare
- 22. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs fare
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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