fere
The verdict
“fere” is uncommon French (frequency #87,637 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,637
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fere · fere · French
fere · rank #87,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,637
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feuilletage
Nearest frequency peer: feuilletage (+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 « fere »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faufilent
faufilent
12,368 corpus weight
- Faïd
Faïd
12,366 corpus weight
- fere
fere
12,364 corpus weight
- feuilletage
feuilletage
12,363 corpus weight
- fichtrement
fichtrement
12,362 corpus weight
- fignoler
fignoler
12,361 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fere » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fere |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fere » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fere is uncommon French at frequency #87,637 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de faire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fere, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fere, spelled F-E-R-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fere appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sire, vostre prisoniers sui por fere ce que vos voldroiz
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).