fad
\faːt\
The verdict
“fad” is uncommon French (frequency #73,987 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,987
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fade, ennuyeux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fad · fad · French
fad · rank #73,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,987
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH external
Nearest frequency peer: external (-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 « fad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- expérimenta…
expérimentant
26,017 corpus weight
- extensibles
extensibles
26,016 corpus weight
- external
external
26,015 corpus weight
- fad
fad
26,014 corpus weight
- Falkland
Falkland
26,013 corpus weight
- fallacieuses
fallacieuses
26,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \faːt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #73,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fad is uncommon French at frequency #73,987 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \faːt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fade, ennuyeux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fad in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fad, spelled F-A-D.
Definition
- 1Fade, ennuyeux.
Synonyms
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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