fairway
\fɛʁ.wɛ\
The verdict
“fairway” is uncommon French (frequency #90,715 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,715
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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).
Corpus desk
Index FR-fairway · fairway · French
fairway · rank #90,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,715
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH falafel
Nearest frequency peer: falafel (+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 « fairway »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fabuliste
fabuliste
9,290 corpus weight
- facturations
facturations
9,289 corpus weight
- fadas
fadas
9,288 corpus weight
- fairway
fairway
9,286 corpus weight
- falafel
falafel
9,285 corpus weight
- fanzines
fanzines
9,283 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fairway » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « fairway » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fairway is uncommon French at frequency #90,715 among 3,276 “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).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fairway appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La balle a atterri dans le fairway.
Cela ne l’étonnait pas vraiment, car a moins de rechercher une balle perdue -très maladroitement frappée-, peu de joueurs devaient prendre plaisir a se promener dans ces taillis touffus qui bordaient le fairway.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).