farad

/\fa.ʁad\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

farad is aFrenchnoun. It means: Unité de mesure de capacité électrique du Système international, dont le symbole est F. Un condensateur a une capacité électrique de 1 farad quand 1 coulomb de charge cause une différence de potent... Pronounced \fa.ʁad\.

Key facts for farad
PropertyValue
Headwordfarad
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.ʁad\
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

farad is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for farad is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.ʁad\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unité de mesure de capacité électrique du Système international, dont le symbole est F. Un condensateur a une capacité électrique de 1 farad quand 1 coulomb de charge cause une différence de potent...".

No misspelling variants are generated for farad in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is farad, spelled F-A-R-A-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Unité de mesure de capacité électrique du Système international, dont le symbole est F. Un condensateur a une capacité électrique de 1 farad quand 1 coulomb de charge cause une différence de potentiel de 1 volt.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "farad"?
"farad" is spelled F-A-R-A-D. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.ʁad\.
What does "farad" mean?
As a noun, "farad" means: Unité de mesure de capacité électrique du Système international, dont le symbole est F. Un condensateur a une capacité électrique de 1 farad quand 1 coulomb de charge cause une différence de potent...
How do you pronounce "farad"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "farad" is \fa.ʁad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "farad" come from?
"farad" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.