fards
\faʁ\
The verdict
“fards” is uncommon French (frequency #59,282 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,282
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fards · fards · French
fards · rank #59,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,282
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fantassin
Nearest frequency peer: fantassin (-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 « fards »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- extatique
extatique
40,722 corpus weight
- fantassin
fantassin
40,720 corpus weight
- fards
fards
40,719 corpus weight
- fauconnier
fauconnier
40,718 corpus weight
- faussetés
faussetés
40,717 corpus weight
- fauteur
fauteur
40,716 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fards » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \faʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fards » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fards is uncommon French at frequency #59,282 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \faʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fard.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fards, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fards, spelled F-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fard.
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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