fairway
\fɛʁ.wɛ\
The verdict
“fairway” is uncommon French (frequency #90,715 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,715
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Zone d’un parcours de golf, l’allée, où l’on est censé se placer entre le point de départ (tee) et le trou (sur le green).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fairway |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.wɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fairway” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fairway is uncommon French at frequency #90,715 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛʁ.wɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zone d’un parcours de golf, l’allée, où l’on est censé se placer entre le point de départ (tee) et le trou (sur le green).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fairway, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 fairway, spelled F-A-I-R-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Zone d’un parcours de golf, l’allée, où l’on est censé se placer entre le point de départ (tee) et le trou (sur le green).
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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Using “fairway”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-W-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ.wɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.