fagnes
\faɲ\
The verdict
“fagnes” is uncommon French (frequency #75,679 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,679
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fagnes · fagnes · French
fagnes · rank #75,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,679
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH factuels
Nearest frequency peer: factuels (-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 « fagnes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- expulsent
expulsent
24,325 corpus weight
- factuels
factuels
24,323 corpus weight
- fagnes
fagnes
24,322 corpus weight
- faict
faict
24,321 corpus weight
- fansub
fansub
24,320 corpus weight
- fastueuses
fastueuses
24,319 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fagnes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fagnes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \faɲ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fagnes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fagnes is uncommon French at frequency #75,679 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \faɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fagne.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fagnes in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fagnes, spelled F-A-G-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fagnes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque pays a ses habitudes et l’Ardenne n'est pas le Brabant. Le péquet est, à peu près, la seule boisson qu'on prenne au cabaret, comme l'arbuste qui lui donne son nom est le seul qui s'élève dans la vaste solitude des Fagnes.
Les bêtes si méfiantes qui s’abattaient à la croûle sur les fagnes pour en extraire les vers, ne prenaient point garde aux filets tendus à plat sur le sol; elles s’y empêtraient et tous leurs efforts étaient vains. Elles ne pouvaient s’en dépêtrer ou arracher le bâtonnet qui les fixe.
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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