fébrifuge
\fe.bʁi.fyʒ\
The verdict
“fébrifuge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la propriété de combattre la fièvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-febrifuge · fébrifuge · French
fébrifuge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fébrifuge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fe.bʁi.fyʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fébrifuge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fébrifuge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fe.bʁi.fyʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a la propriété de combattre la fièvre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fébrifuge, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fébrifuge, spelled F-É-B-R-I-F-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a la propriété de combattre la fièvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fébrifuge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un remède, une plante fébrifuge.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.