faubert
\fo.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“faubert” is uncommon French (frequency #82,947 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,947
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Balai fait de vieux cordages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faubert · faubert · French
faubert · rank #82,947 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,947
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fauchage
Nearest frequency peer: fauchage (+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 « faubert »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fanfictions
fanfictions
17,057 corpus weight
- fano
fano
17,056 corpus weight
- faubert
faubert
17,054 corpus weight
- fauchage
fauchage
17,053 corpus weight
- favorisez
favorisez
17,052 corpus weight
- feather
feather
17,051 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faubert » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faubert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faubert » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faubert is uncommon French at frequency #82,947 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fo.bɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for faubert in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is faubert, spelled F-A-U-B-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Balai fait de vieux cordages.
- 2Serpillère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faubert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le pont, il semble que, de tous côtés, on vous épie. […] c’est un marin qui essuie les sabords du salon avec le faubert et, rencontrant votre regard, il reprend aussitôt son travail d’un air attentif.
Il empoignait le faubert et moi le seau et nous nous mettions à éponger le pont.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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