faon
\fɑ̃\
The verdict
“faon” is uncommon French (frequency #60,780 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,780
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit d’une biche (cas d’emploi le plus courant), d’une daine ou d’une chevrette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faon · faon · French
faon · rank #60,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,780
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fanzine
Nearest frequency peer: fanzine (-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 « faon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- facade
facade
39,224 corpus weight
- Faidherbe
Faidherbe
39,223 corpus weight
- fanzine
fanzine
39,222 corpus weight
- faon
faon
39,221 corpus weight
- farms
farms
39,219 corpus weight
- fatras
fatras
39,218 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faon is uncommon French at frequency #60,780 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for faon in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 faon, spelled F-A-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petit d’une biche (cas d’emploi le plus courant), d’une daine ou d’une chevrette.
- 2Petit d’une biche (cas d’emploi le plus courant), d’une daine ou d’une chevrette.
- 3Se dit aussi du petit de tout autre ruminant sauvage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon bien-aimé est semblable à la gazelle, ou au faon des biches. Le voici, il se tient derrière notre mur, il regarde par les fenêtres, il regarde à travers les treillis.
Jouis dès aujourd’hui : redoute un sort semblable À celui du Chasseur et du Loup de ma fable. Le premier de son arc avait mis bas un daim. Un Faon de Biche passe, et le voilà soudain Compagnon du défunt ; tous deux gisent sur l’herbe. La proie était honnête ; un Daim avec un Faon, Tout modeste Chasseur en eût été content : Cependant un Sanglier, monstre é…
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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