faufilent
\fo.fil\
The verdict
“faufilent” is uncommon French (frequency #87,633 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,633
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de faufiler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faufilent · faufilent · French
faufilent · rank #87,633 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,633
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fassi
Nearest frequency peer: fassi (-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 « faufilent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faque
faque
12,371 corpus weight
- faria
faria
12,370 corpus weight
- fassi
fassi
12,369 corpus weight
- faufilent
faufilent
12,368 corpus weight
- Faïd
Faïd
12,366 corpus weight
- fere
fere
12,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faufilent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faufilent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fo.fil\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faufilent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faufilent is uncommon French at frequency #87,633 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fo.fil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for faufilent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is faufilent, spelled F-A-U-F-I-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de faufiler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de faufiler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faufilent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des moufflets criards et heureux de se croire en plein ciel galopent et se faufilent dans les poutrelles comme dans des cadres de gymnase, sous le regard vague des mères indolentes.
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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