Fayence
The verdict
“Fayence” is uncommon French (frequency #73,163 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,163
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Var.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fayence · Fayence · French
Fayence · rank #73,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,163
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fauconnerie
Nearest frequency peer: fauconnerie (-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 « Fayence »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- falsifiée
falsifiée
26,841 corpus weight
- fath
fath
26,840 corpus weight
- fauconnerie
fauconnerie
26,839 corpus weight
- Fayence
Fayence
26,838 corpus weight
- ferrailles
ferrailles
26,837 corpus weight
- festa
festa
26,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fayence » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fayence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fayence » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fayence is uncommon French at frequency #73,163 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Var.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Fayence, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Fayence, spelled F-A-Y-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Var.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Fayence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au sommet de Fayence, les chauves-souris commencent à sortir par toutes les ouvertures d’un étrange palais moscovite qu’un général de Napoléon Ier a fait construire, retour de Bérézina.
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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