Faidherbe
\fɛ.dɛʁb\
The verdict
“Faidherbe” is uncommon French (frequency #60,778 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,778
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom de famille français, représenté notamment par le général Louis Faidherbe (1818-1889).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Faidherbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.dɛʁb\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Faidherbe” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Faidherbe is uncommon French at frequency #60,778 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fɛ.dɛʁb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Faidherbe, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Faidherbe, spelled F-A-I-D-H-E-R-B-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français, représenté notamment par le général Louis Faidherbe (1818-1889).
- 2Pas trop battus aujourd’hui ; on se défend bien autour de Paris, Chanzy tient bon et fera, dit-on, sa jonction avec Faidherbe, que je sais être un homme de grand mérite. — (George Sand, Journal d'un voyageur pendant la guerre, 1871, page 230)
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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Using “Faidherbe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-D-H-E-R-B-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.