Féraud
The verdict
“Féraud” is uncommon French (frequency #57,970 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,970
- 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-feraud · Féraud · French
Féraud · rank #57,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,970
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH gato
Nearest frequency peer: gato (+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 « Féraud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frigorifiqu…
frigorifiques
42,036 corpus weight
- frémont
frémont
42,035 corpus weight
- fumeuses
fumeuses
42,034 corpus weight
- Féraud
Féraud
42,031 corpus weight
- gato
gato
42,030 corpus weight
- geindre
geindre
42,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Féraud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Féraud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Féraud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Féraud is uncommon French at frequency #57,970 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Féraud doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Féraud, spelled F-É-R-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Féraud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est du tripatouillage électoral, s’insurge Rémi Féraud, le président du groupe socialiste au Conseil de Paris.
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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