Ferber
\ˈfɛʀbɐ\
The verdict
“Ferber” is uncommon French (frequency #91,692 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,692
- 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-ferber · Ferber · French
Ferber · rank #91,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,692
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Felis
Nearest frequency peer: Felis (-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 « Ferber »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fatwas
fatwas
8,314 corpus weight
- fausta
fausta
8,313 corpus weight
- Felis
Felis
8,311 corpus weight
- Ferber
Ferber
8,309 corpus weight
- ferrugineux
ferrugineux
8,307 corpus weight
- fiscalisati…
fiscalisation
8,305 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ferber » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ferber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈfɛʀbɐ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ferber » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ferber is uncommon French at frequency #91,692 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈfɛʀbɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Ferber in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Ferber, spelled F-E-R-B-E-R.
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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