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fernet

/fə(ɹ)ˈnɛt/noun

fernet is a noun meaning “A particular type of Italian amaro” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-R-N-E-T, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fernet is fernets.

What does fernet mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A particular type of Italian amaro.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fernet?

  • /fə(ɹ)ˈnɛt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fernet.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of fernet

  • fernets plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fernet?

Fernet appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fernet come from?

From Italian fernet, of uncertain origin.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).