faims
\fɛ̃\
The verdict
“faims” is uncommon French (frequency #92,723 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,723
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de faim.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faims · faims · French
faims · rank #92,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,723
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fase
Nearest frequency peer: fase (+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 « faims »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- facing
facing
7,282 corpus weight
- factrice
factrice
7,281 corpus weight
- factuelleme…
factuellement
7,280 corpus weight
- faims
faims
7,278 corpus weight
- fase
fase
7,277 corpus weight
- faya
faya
7,275 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faims » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faims |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faims » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faims is uncommon French at frequency #92,723 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de faim.".
No misspelling variants are generated for faims in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is faims, spelled F-A-I-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de faim.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faims appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers midi, de Marsay se détira les bras en se réveillant, et sentit les atteintes d’une de ces faims canines que tous les vieux soldats peuvent se souvenir d’avoir éprouvée au lendemain de la victoire.
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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