Farel
\fa.ʁɛl\
The verdict
“Farel” is uncommon French (frequency #94,797 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,797
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-farel · Farel · French
Farel · rank #94,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,797
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fantasmagorie
Nearest frequency peer: fantasmagorie (-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 « Farel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fangio
fangio
5,207 corpus weight
- fanons
fanons
5,206 corpus weight
- fantasmagor…
fantasmagorie
5,205 corpus weight
- Farel
Farel
5,204 corpus weight
- faucilles
faucilles
5,203 corpus weight
- FBF
FBF
5,202 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Farel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Farel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fa.ʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Farel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Farel is uncommon French at frequency #94,797 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fa.ʁɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Farel in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Farel, spelled F-A-R-E-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Farel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur l'esplanade de la collégiale de Neuchâtel, la statue du réformateur Guillaume Farel est affublée de drôles de têtes. Il ne s'agit pas de vandalisme, mais d'une intervention artistique dans le cadre des 500 ans de la Réforme.
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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