farthing
\faʁ.tiŋ\
The verdict
“farthing” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de monnaie britannique équivalent à un quart de penny, qui a disparu en 1960, peu avant la décimalisation de 1971.
Corpus desk
Index FR-farthing · farthing · French
farthing · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farthing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \faʁ.tiŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « farthing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
farthing is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \faʁ.tiŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pièce de monnaie britannique équivalent à un quart de penny, qui a disparu en 1960, peu avant la décimalisation de 1971.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for farthing, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 farthing, spelled F-A-R-T-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Pièce de monnaie britannique équivalent à un quart de penny, qui a disparu en 1960, peu avant la décimalisation de 1971.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how farthing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mr. Fogg lui régla son salaire au prix convenu, sans le dépasser d’un farthing.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.