Feinstein
\fajn.ʃtajn\
The verdict
“Feinstein” is uncommon French (frequency #81,157 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,157
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feinstein · Feinstein · French
Feinstein · rank #81,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,157
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FCs
Nearest frequency peer: FCs (-2 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 « Feinstein »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fauchon
fauchon
18,848 corpus weight
- faussent
faussent
18,847 corpus weight
- FCs
FCs
18,846 corpus weight
- Feinstein
Feinstein
18,844 corpus weight
- ferrures
ferrures
18,842 corpus weight
- fertilisant
fertilisant
18,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Feinstein » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Feinstein |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fajn.ʃtajn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Feinstein » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Feinstein is uncommon French at frequency #81,157 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fajn.ʃtajn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Feinstein, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Feinstein, spelled F-E-I-N-S-T-E-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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