fafa
\fa.fa\
The verdict
“fafa” is uncommon French (frequency #96,911 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,911
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante à tubercule, variété de taro de la famille des Aracées, des régions tropicales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fafa · fafa · French
fafa · rank #96,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,911
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH extériorité
Nearest frequency peer: extériorité (-2 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 « fafa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- extases
extases
3,094 corpus weight
- extériorité
extériorité
3,092 corpus weight
- fafa
fafa
3,090 corpus weight
- faiblarde
faiblarde
3,088 corpus weight
- fallot
fallot
3,087 corpus weight
- fanchon
fanchon
3,086 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fafa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fafa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.fa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fafa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fafa is uncommon French at frequency #96,911 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.fa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante à tubercule, variété de taro de la famille des Aracées, des régions tropicales.".
fafa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fafa, spelled F-A-F-A.
Definition
- 1Plante à tubercule, variété de taro de la famille des Aracées, des régions tropicales.
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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