fart
\faʁt\
The verdict
“fart” is uncommon French (frequency #81,150 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,150
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance cireuse avec laquelle on enduit les semelles des skis ou des planches de glisse (snowboard, planche de surf…) afin de les rendre plus glissantes, ou de combiner glisse et accroche avec un...
Corpus desk
Index FR-fart · fart · French
fart · rank #81,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,150
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fashionistas
Nearest frequency peer: fashionistas (+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 « fart »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fantasment
fantasment
18,854 corpus weight
- fara
fara
18,853 corpus weight
- fart
fart
18,851 corpus weight
- fashionistas
fashionistas
18,850 corpus weight
- Fassbinder
Fassbinder
18,849 corpus weight
- fauchon
fauchon
18,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fart » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fart |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \faʁt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fart » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fart is uncommon French at frequency #81,150 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \faʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Substance cireuse avec laquelle on enduit les semelles des skis ou des planches de glisse (snowboard, planche de surf…) afin de les rendre plus glissantes, ou de combiner glisse et accroche avec un...".
Zero misspellings are on record for fart in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fart, spelled F-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Substance cireuse avec laquelle on enduit les semelles des skis ou des planches de glisse (snowboard, planche de surf…) afin de les rendre plus glissantes, ou de combiner glisse et accroche avec une substance collante ou pâteuse dans le cas du ski de fond.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parfois avec une couche de bleu suffisamment épaisse, il n’est pas nécessaire d’employer du fart plus mou.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).