fécales
\fe.kal\
The verdict
“fécales” is uncommon French (frequency #57,287 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,287
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de fécal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fecales · fécales · French
fécales · rank #57,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,287
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH furies
Nearest frequency peer: furies (-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 « fécales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fuego
fuego
42,717 corpus weight
- Fulgence
Fulgence
42,716 corpus weight
- furies
furies
42,715 corpus weight
- fécales
fécales
42,714 corpus weight
- félicitait
félicitait
42,713 corpus weight
- gardon
gardon
42,711 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fécales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fécales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fe.kal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fécales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fécales is uncommon French at frequency #57,287 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fe.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de fécal.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fécales in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fécales, spelled F-É-C-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de fécal.
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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