feins
\fɛ̃\
The verdict
“feins” is uncommon French (frequency #99,088 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,088
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de feindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feins · feins · French
feins · rank #99,088 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,088
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feast
Nearest frequency peer: feast (-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 « feins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fastfood
Fastfood
916 corpus weight
- fave
fave
915 corpus weight
- feast
feast
914 corpus weight
- feins
feins
913 corpus weight
- Fiesole
Fiesole
911 corpus weight
- filii
filii
910 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feins is uncommon French at frequency #99,088 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for feins, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is feins, spelled F-E-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de feindre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de feindre.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de feindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how feins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je hoche la tête, feins l’empathie…
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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