fatals
\fa.tal\
The verdict
“fatals” is uncommon French (frequency #54,582 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,582
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fatal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fatals · fatals · French
fatals · rank #54,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,582
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fantoche
Nearest frequency peer: fantoche (-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 « fatals »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faillis
faillis
45,422 corpus weight
- fanfan
fanfan
45,421 corpus weight
- fantoche
fantoche
45,420 corpus weight
- fatals
fatals
45,419 corpus weight
- FCO
FCO
45,418 corpus weight
- feignasse
feignasse
45,417 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fatals » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fatals |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.tal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fatals » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fatals is uncommon French at frequency #54,582 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fa.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fatal.".
fatals has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 fatals, spelled F-A-T-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fatal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fatals appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques piégeages visant des ragondins, avec qui elle est souvent confondue, lui sont encore aussi fatals.
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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