fellah
\fe.la\
The verdict
“fellah” is uncommon French (frequency #88,622 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,622
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paysan d’Égypte et d'Afrique du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fellah · fellah · French
fellah · rank #88,622 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,622
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fazio
Nearest frequency peer: fazio (-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 « fellah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fatto
fatto
11,383 corpus weight
- fazio
fazio
11,380 corpus weight
- fellah
fellah
11,379 corpus weight
- Ferenc
Ferenc
11,378 corpus weight
- ferrys
ferrys
11,377 corpus weight
- festi
festi
11,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fellah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fellah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fe.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fellah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fellah is uncommon French at frequency #88,622 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fe.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Paysan d’Égypte et d'Afrique du Nord.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fellah, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fellah, spelled F-E-L-L-A-H.
Definition
- 1Paysan d’Égypte et d'Afrique du Nord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fellah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une partie du Delta est en friche ; des milliers de fellahs ont été massacrés par les Albanais ; le reste a passé dans la Haute-Égypte.
J’ai vu le fellah affamé soulevant avec instinctive vénération et millénaire conscience le pot de glaise que sa charrue de bois venait de déterrer d’un sol qu’il a connu avant que les archéologues s’en occupassent.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).