famé
\fa.me\
The verdict
“famé” is uncommon French (frequency #70,631 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,631
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réputé, reconnu. Ne se dit que joint aux adverbes bien, mal : bien famé, mal famé, qui a une bonne, une mauvaise réputation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fame · famé · French
famé · rank #70,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,631
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fairplay
Nearest frequency peer: fairplay (-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 « famé »
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 « famé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | famé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.me\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « famé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
famé is uncommon French at frequency #70,631 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fa.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Réputé, reconnu. Ne se dit que joint aux adverbes bien, mal : bien famé, mal famé, qui a une bonne, une mauvaise réputation.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for famé, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is famé, spelled F-A-M-É.
Definition
- 1Réputé, reconnu. Ne se dit que joint aux adverbes bien, mal : bien famé, mal famé, qui a une bonne, une mauvaise réputation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how famé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si ma résolution d'habiter seul rencontre le soutien de mon entourage, celui-ci se montre plus réservé quant au choix du quartier, trop proche de la zone mal famée de Montmartre. Pour moi, le lieu est idéal.
Tout est perdu, tant que vos agents ne seront que des protégés ou des hommes mal famés.
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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