faya
\fa.ja\
The verdict
“faya” is uncommon French (frequency #92,726 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,726
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Drogué ou en état d’ivresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faya · faya · French
faya · rank #92,726 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,726
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fase
Nearest frequency peer: fase (-2 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 « faya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faims
faims
7,278 corpus weight
- fase
fase
7,277 corpus weight
- faya
faya
7,275 corpus weight
- ferrais
ferrais
7,273 corpus weight
- Ferraro
Ferraro
7,272 corpus weight
- festivité
festivité
7,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.ja\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #92,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faya is uncommon French at frequency #92,726 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fa.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Drogué ou en état d’ivresse.".
faya doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is faya, spelled F-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Drogué ou en état d’ivresse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La misère est mon vice, fils, je suis faya.
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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