fatras
\fa.tʁa\
The verdict
“fatras” is uncommon French (frequency #60,783 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,783
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amas confus de plusieurs choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fatras · fatras · French
fatras · rank #60,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,783
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH farms
Nearest frequency peer: farms (-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 « fatras »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fanzine
fanzine
39,222 corpus weight
- faon
faon
39,221 corpus weight
- farms
farms
39,219 corpus weight
- fatras
fatras
39,218 corpus weight
- faucheur
faucheur
39,217 corpus weight
- favorisa
favorisa
39,215 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fatras » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fatras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.tʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fatras » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fatras is uncommon French at frequency #60,783 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.tʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Amas confus de plusieurs choses.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fatras, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fatras, spelled F-A-T-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Amas confus de plusieurs choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fatras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une seule vérité dans le fatras de complots tout à fait impossibles sous un régime policier perfectionné : que tout le vieux parti haïssait Staline, […].
L’histoire ne m’intéressait pas. À part l’ouvrage de Vaulabelle sur les deux Restaurations, les mémoires, récits, chroniques qu’on m’avait fait lire m’avaient paru, comme les cours de Mademoiselle Gontran, un fatras d’anecdotes sans signification.
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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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