fatwa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,458
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
fatwa is aFrenchnoun. It means: Consultation, décret ou décision rendue par un mufti sur un point de la loi musulmane. Pronounced \fa.twa\. Often confused with faa and fate.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fatwa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.twa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fatwa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.twa\. Corpus data places it at rank #44,458 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fatwa, with forms such as "aftwa", "fataw", and "fattwa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "faa", "fate", "fana", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fatwa, spelled F-A-T-W-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Consultation, décret ou décision rendue par un mufti sur un point de la loi musulmane.
- 2Décision annoncée de manière officielle et n'admettant aucune contradiction.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aftwa,fataw,fattwa,fatwwa,fawta,ffatwa,ftawa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fatwa
Misspelling Variants of "fatwa"
Frequency rank: #44,458 in French
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