Fabergé

name

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The verdict

“Fabergé” is uncommon French (frequency #78,415 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,415
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-faberge · Fabergé · French

Fabergé · rank #78,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,415
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH extrajudiciai…

Nearest frequency peer: extrajudiciaires (-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 « Fabergé »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fabergé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Fabergé
PropertyValue
HeadwordFabergé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#78,415
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Fabergé » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Fabergétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « extrajudiciaires » (#78,414), « factorielle » (#78,416), « exportait » (#78,413). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « Fabergé » est au #78,415. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Fabergé is uncommon French at frequency #78,415 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Fabergé doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Fabergé, spelled F-A-B-E-R-G-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Fabergé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pierre-Karl Fabergé.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Fabergé"?
"Fabergé" is spelled F-A-B-E-R-G-É.
What does "Fabergé" mean?
As a proper noun, "Fabergé" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Fabergé" come from?
"Fabergé" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Fabergé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

festina#78,423fientes#78,426fofolle#78,432encoder#78,388

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list