fare

Name: fare, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\faʁ\

/\faʁ\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“fare” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,039) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#45,039
frequency rank, French: 3,276
“F” headwords: 4
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pêche solennelle que les pêcheurs faisaient pour leur fête, vers le mois de mai, et qui fut interdite en 1670, parce qu’elle dépeuplait les rivières.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fare · fare · French

fare · rank #45,039 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-MID #45,039
LEN-MID 4 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-LOW 4 variants
BOOK-MID 3,276
PHOTO-FINISH faiseurs

Nearest frequency peer: faiseurs (-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.

factices

54,965
factuel

54,964
faiseurs

54,963
fare

54,962
felice

54,961
fen

54,960

What this shows Les barres placent « fare » 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).

fare vs fe

50% similar

fare vs fer

50% similar

fare vs for

50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fare
Property	Value
Headword	fare
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\faʁ\
Letters	4
Frequency rank	#45,039
Misspellings tracked	4
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fare »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).farese place ici:

#45,039

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « faiseurs » (#45,038), « felice » (#45,040), « factuel » (#45,037). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fare » est au #45,039. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for fare is neighbouring look-alikes ("fe", "fer", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \faʁ\. Frequency #45,039 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Pêche solennelle que les pêcheurs faisaient pour leur fête, vers le mois de mai, et qui fut interdite en 1670, parce qu’elle dépeuplait les rivières.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for fare, with forms such as "afre", "farre", and "ffare". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fe", "fer", "for", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fare, spelled F-A-R-E.

Definition

1
Pêche solennelle que les pêcheurs faisaient pour leur fête, vers le mois de mai, et qui fut interdite en 1670, parce qu’elle dépeuplait les rivières.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how fare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Doivent lesdits pescheurs à une fare de montant, commencer d’aval ; et s’il y a quelqu’un qui demeure happé à une falaise ou autre accident, son cacheur sera tenu de le déhapper et mettre bien, sur peine de l’amende telle qu’au cas appartiendra.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

afre
farre
ffare
frae

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fare - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "fare"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fare"?

"fare" is spelled F-A-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \faʁ\.

What does "fare" mean?

As a noun, "fare" means: Pêche solennelle que les pêcheurs faisaient pour leur fête, vers le mois de mai, et qui fut interdite en 1670, parce qu’elle dépeuplait les rivières.

What words are commonly confused with "fare"?

"fare" is commonly confused with "fe", "fer", "for". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "fare"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fare" is \faʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "fare" come from?

"fare" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fare", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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