fede
\ˈf̬eː.de\
The verdict
“fede” is uncommon French (frequency #76,566 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,566
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de pede par spirantisation (p → f).
Corpus desk
Index FR-fede · fede · French
fede · rank #76,566 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,566
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH faussées
Nearest frequency peer: faussées (-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 « fede »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fastidieuses
fastidieuses
23,438 corpus weight
- Fatoumata
Fatoumata
23,437 corpus weight
- faussées
faussées
23,436 corpus weight
- fede
fede
23,435 corpus weight
- fenouillet
fenouillet
23,434 corpus weight
- fermentée
fermentée
23,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fede » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fede |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈf̬eː.de\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fede » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fede is uncommon French at frequency #76,566 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈf̬eː.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de pede par spirantisation (p → f).".
fede doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fede, spelled F-E-D-E.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de pede par spirantisation (p → f).
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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