fath
\ˈfæð.əm\
The verdict
“fath” is uncommon French (frequency #73,161 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a symbol. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,161
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du fathom (la brasse en français), unité de mesure de profondeur hydrographique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fath · fath · French
fath · rank #73,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,161
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH falsifiée
Nearest frequency peer: falsifiée (-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 « fath »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- failure
failure
26,843 corpus weight
- fain
fain
26,842 corpus weight
- falsifiée
falsifiée
26,841 corpus weight
- fath
fath
26,840 corpus weight
- fauconnerie
fauconnerie
26,839 corpus weight
- Fayence
Fayence
26,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fath » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fath |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| IPA | \ˈfæð.əm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fath » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fath is uncommon French at frequency #73,161 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as asymbol, transcribed \ˈfæð.əm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Symbole du fathom (la brasse en français), unité de mesure de profondeur hydrographique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fath, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fath, spelled F-A-T-H.
Definition
- 1Symbole du fathom (la brasse en français), unité de mesure de profondeur hydrographique.
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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