Faustin
The verdict
“Faustin” is uncommon French (frequency #55,962 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,962
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faustin · Faustin · French
Faustin · rank #55,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,962
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH farandole
Nearest frequency peer: farandole (-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 « Faustin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fanboy
fanboy
44,042 corpus weight
- fantasio
fantasio
44,041 corpus weight
- farandole
farandole
44,040 corpus weight
- Faustin
Faustin
44,039 corpus weight
- Fell
Fell
44,038 corpus weight
- felton
felton
44,037 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Faustin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Faustin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Faustin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Faustin is uncommon French at frequency #55,962 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Faustin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Faustin, spelled F-A-U-S-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Faustin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette observation plutôt gaie amène un amusement sur les lèvres de l’aîné, Faustin, qui va sur ses huit ans.
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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