famas
\fa.mas\
The verdict
“famas” is uncommon French (frequency #62,992 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,992
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fusil d’assaut français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-famas · famas · French
famas · rank #62,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,992
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fama
Nearest frequency peer: fama (-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 « famas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- fendant
fendant
37,006 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « famas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | famas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.mas\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « famas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
famas is uncommon French at frequency #62,992 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.mas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fusil d’assaut français.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for famas, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is famas, spelled F-A-M-A-S.
Definition
- 1Fusil d’assaut français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how famas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des explosifs avec plusieurs exploseurs radiocommandés, le fusil de précision, un famas, un fusil de guerre lance-grenades, quelques grenades à main et à fusil, des fumigènes, des munitions, un pistolet automatique, riz, pâtes, sucre et de l’argent.
Synonyms
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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