ferme
[fɛʁm]
The verdict
“ferme” is uncommon German (frequency #98,419 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,419
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Landpacht, landwirtschaftliche Pacht
Corpus desk
Index DE-ferme · ferme · German
ferme · rank #98,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,419
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Feuerzangenbo…
Nearest frequency peer: Feuerzangenbowle (+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 „ferme“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Feinmechanik
Feinmechanik
1,586 corpus weight
- Fellatio
Fellatio
1,585 corpus weight
- ferme
ferme
1,582 corpus weight
- Feuerzangen…
Feuerzangenbowle
1,581 corpus weight
- Filmschausp…
Filmschauspieler
1,580 corpus weight
- Filmtablett…
Filmtabletten
1,579 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ferme“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferme |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛʁm] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ferme“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ferme is uncommon German at frequency #98,419 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [fɛʁm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ferme, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is ferme, spelled F-E-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Landpacht, landwirtschaftliche Pacht
- 2verpachteter Landwirtschaftsbetrieb
- 3jeder landwirtschaftlicher Betrieb
- 4Gebäude eines landwirtschaftlichen Betriebs
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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