fama
The verdict
“fama” is uncommon French (frequency #62,991 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,991
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Longue absence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fama · fama · French
fama · rank #62,991 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,991
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FaceTime
Nearest frequency peer: FaceTime (-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 « fama »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- explorez
explorez
37,014 corpus weight
- explosera
explosera
37,013 corpus weight
- exécuteurs
exécuteurs
37,012 corpus weight
- FaceTime
FaceTime
37,011 corpus weight
- fama
fama
37,010 corpus weight
- famas
famas
37,009 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fama » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fama |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fama » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fama is uncommon French at frequency #62,991 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Longue absence.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fama, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fama, spelled F-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Longue absence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fama appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
fama ka fisa dɔ ye. la longue absence est meilleure que l'autre (la mort)
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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