famé
\fa.me\
The verdict
“famé” is an uncommon French word, ranked #70,631 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #70,631
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Réputé, reconnu. Ne se dit que joint aux adverbes bien, mal : bien famé, mal famé, qui a une bonne, une mauvaise réputation.
| 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) |
Where “famé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for famé is 4 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.me\. Corpus data places it at rank #70,631 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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 “famé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-M-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fa.me\ (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.