fed
\fɛd\
The verdict
“fed” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,134) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,134
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de fédéraux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fed · fed · French
fed · rank #17,134 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,134
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH falaises
Nearest frequency peer: falaises (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « fed »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Ethan
Ethan
82,870 corpus weight
- evil
evil
82,869 corpus weight
- falaises
falaises
82,868 corpus weight
- fed
fed
82,867 corpus weight
- fictions
fictions
82,866 corpus weight
- field
field
82,865 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fed » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fed |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛd\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fed »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fed is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "fo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fɛd\. Frequency #17,134 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de fédéraux.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fed in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "fo", "fm", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fed, spelled F-E-D.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de fédéraux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fédéraux sont déjà venus voir s’ils peuvent intervenir, on peut pas les tenir à l’écart. […] Les feds allaient prendre l’affaire en main et il devait reprendre la fuite.
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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