faner
\fa.ne\
The verdict
“faner” is uncommon French (frequency #69,832 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,832
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire les foins, tourner et retourner l’herbe d’un pré fauché, pour la faire sécher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faner · faner · French
faner · rank #69,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,832
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH falsifications
Nearest frequency peer: falsifications (-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 « faner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exégète
exégète
30,173 corpus weight
- fabriquez
fabriquez
30,172 corpus weight
- falsificati…
falsifications
30,170 corpus weight
- faner
faner
30,169 corpus weight
- Fatiha
Fatiha
30,168 corpus weight
- fermi
fermi
30,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fa.ne\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faner is uncommon French at frequency #69,832 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fa.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for faner in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is faner, spelled F-A-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire les foins, tourner et retourner l’herbe d’un pré fauché, pour la faire sécher.
- 2Flétrir une plante dans sa fraîcheur et dans sa couleur.
- 3Ternir l’éclat d’une couleur, du teint.
- 4Perdre de son éclat, de sa vigueur ou de sa beauté d'origine en raison du passage du temps.
- 5Énerver, fatiguer, saouler, exaspérer quelqu'un
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voilà un beau temps pour faner.
Faner l’herbe d’une prairie.
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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