fayot
\fa.jo\
The verdict
“fayot” is uncommon French (frequency #75,685 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,685
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Haricot sec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fayot · fayot · French
fayot · rank #75,685 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,685
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fauchées
Nearest frequency peer: fauchées (-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 « fayot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fastueuses
fastueuses
24,319 corpus weight
- fatigants
fatigants
24,318 corpus weight
- fauchées
fauchées
24,317 corpus weight
- fayot
fayot
24,316 corpus weight
- FCL
FCL
24,315 corpus weight
- FDSEA
FDSEA
24,314 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fayot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fayot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.jo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fayot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fayot is uncommon French at frequency #75,685 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.jo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fayot, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 fayot, spelled F-A-Y-O-T.
Definition
- 1Haricot sec.
- 2Militaire rengagé.
- 3Celui qui cherche à se faire bien voir de ses supérieurs ; lèche-bottes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fayot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elles bouffent des patates et des fayots, des fayots et des patates… et c’est à peu près tout. Si seulement c’était cuisiné potablement.
La France est notre mère, c’est elle qui nous nourrit avec ses pommes de terre et ses fayots pourris.
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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