fap
\fap\
The verdict
“fap” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,293) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,293
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se masturber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fap · fap · French
fap · rank #39,293 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,293
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fate
Nearest frequency peer: fate (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « fap »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- exportent
exportent
60,711 corpus weight
- extérieurem…
extérieurement
60,710 corpus weight
- fap
fap
60,708 corpus weight
- fate
fate
60,707 corpus weight
- faussaire
faussaire
60,706 corpus weight
- fedora
fedora
60,705 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fap » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fap\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fap »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fap is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "FC", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \fap\. Frequency #39,293 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Se masturber.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fap in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "FC", "fo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fap, spelled F-A-P.
Definition
- 1Se masturber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les filles se fap souvent ?
Notez qu'en cas d'affaire non conclue, il peut toujours «se fap», en français s'adonner à la masturbation.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).