fado
\fa.do\
The verdict
“fado” is uncommon French (frequency #69,075 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,075
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical portugais caractérisé par des chants avec des thèmes mélancoliques accompagné par des instruments à cordes pincées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fado · fado · French
fado · rank #69,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,075
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fadaises
Nearest frequency peer: fadaises (-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 « fado »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faciaux
faciaux
30,929 corpus weight
- facilitées
facilitées
30,928 corpus weight
- fadaises
fadaises
30,927 corpus weight
- fado
fado
30,926 corpus weight
- fae
fae
30,925 corpus weight
- faiblard
faiblard
30,924 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fado » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fado |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.do\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fado » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fado is uncommon French at frequency #69,075 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for fado in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fado, spelled F-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Genre musical portugais caractérisé par des chants avec des thèmes mélancoliques accompagné par des instruments à cordes pincées.
- 2Chanson de ce genre musical.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fado est un chant typiquement portugais, évoquant des récits nostalgiques, souvent empreint de tristesse avec parfois des passages plus joyeux.
Un ivrogne qui avait une belle voix se lança dans un fado de Dulce Pontes que Gonzalo connaissait.
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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