fen
\fɛn\
The verdict
“fen” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,041) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,041
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monnaie chinoise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fen · fen · French
fen · rank #45,041 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,041
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH felice
Nearest frequency peer: felice (-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 « fen »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- faiseurs
faiseurs
54,963 corpus weight
- fare
fare
54,962 corpus weight
- felice
felice
54,961 corpus weight
- fen
fen
54,960 corpus weight
- figuratif
figuratif
54,959 corpus weight
- Finley
Finley
54,958 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fen » 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 | fen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛn\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fen »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fen is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "fo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fɛn\. Frequency #45,041 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Monnaie chinoise.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fen, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fen, spelled F-E-N.
Definition
- 1Monnaie chinoise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plus petite, celle d’un fen, valait 0,0007 pennies.
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).