Faidherbe
\fɛ.dɛʁb\
The verdict
“Faidherbe” is uncommon French (frequency #60,778 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,778
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français, représenté notamment par le général Louis Faidherbe (1818-1889).
Corpus desk
Index FR-faidherbe · Faidherbe · French
Faidherbe · rank #60,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,778
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH facade
Nearest frequency peer: facade (-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 « Faidherbe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exploiteurs
exploiteurs
39,227 corpus weight
- exterminate…
exterminateur
39,226 corpus weight
- facade
facade
39,224 corpus weight
- Faidherbe
Faidherbe
39,223 corpus weight
- fanzine
fanzine
39,222 corpus weight
- faon
faon
39,221 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Faidherbe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Faidherbe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Faidherbe is uncommon French at frequency #60,778 among 3,276 “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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