farewell
\fɛɹ.ˈwɛl\
The verdict
“farewell” is uncommon French (frequency #95,899 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,899
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-farewell · farewell · French
farewell · rank #95,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,899
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH faons
Nearest frequency peer: faons (-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 « farewell »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fanatisés
fanatisés
4,104 corpus weight
- faons
faons
4,103 corpus weight
- farewell
farewell
4,102 corpus weight
- farkas
farkas
4,101 corpus weight
- faus
faus
4,100 corpus weight
- fauvisme
fauvisme
4,099 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « farewell » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farewell |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛɹ.ˈwɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « farewell » en français
Rare enough to double-check
farewell is uncommon French at frequency #95,899 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛɹ.ˈwɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Adieu.".
No misspelling variants are generated for farewell in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 farewell, spelled F-A-R-E-W-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1Adieu.
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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