fairplay
\fɛʁ.plɛ\
The verdict
“fairplay” is uncommon French (frequency #70,630 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,630
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conduite honnête dans un sport ou dans toute autre circonstance et honorable dans la défaite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fairplay · fairplay · French
fairplay · rank #70,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,630
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH extrémismes
Nearest frequency peer: extrémismes (-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 « fairplay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- extraient
extraient
29,373 corpus weight
- extrémismes
extrémismes
29,372 corpus weight
- fairplay
fairplay
29,371 corpus weight
- famé
famé
29,370 corpus weight
- fanfiction
fanfiction
29,369 corpus weight
- farina
farina
29,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fairplay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fairplay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.plɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fairplay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fairplay is uncommon French at frequency #70,630 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛʁ.plɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conduite honnête dans un sport ou dans toute autre circonstance et honorable dans la défaite.".
fairplay has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fairplay, spelled F-A-I-R-P-L-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Conduite honnête dans un sport ou dans toute autre circonstance et honorable dans la défaite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fairplay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire preuve de fairplay.
Il se trouve plutôt dans l’intérêt partagé pour la poursuite de l’activité, dans le fairplay et l’amour du jeu.
This word in other languages
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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