fermage
\fɛʁ.maʒ\
The verdict
“fermage” is uncommon French (frequency #71,520 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,520
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mode d’exploitation agricole louant un domaine rural à un fermier qui cultive les terres en échange d’une rente payable en argent et invariable pour toute la durée du bail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fermage · fermage · French
fermage · rank #71,520 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,520
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feuilletés
Nearest frequency peer: feuilletés (+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 « fermage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fastueuse
fastueuse
28,483 corpus weight
- fermage
fermage
28,481 corpus weight
- feuilletés
feuilletés
28,480 corpus weight
- filetage
filetage
28,478 corpus weight
- finding
finding
28,477 corpus weight
- Firminy
Firminy
28,476 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fermage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fermage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.maʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fermage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fermage is uncommon French at frequency #71,520 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛʁ.maʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
fermage has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fermage, spelled F-E-R-M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Mode d’exploitation agricole louant un domaine rural à un fermier qui cultive les terres en échange d’une rente payable en argent et invariable pour toute la durée du bail.
- 2Redevance convenue pour un bail à ferme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fermage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 3 avril 1567, par exemple, ces gazons sont laissés, pour une durée de neuf années et moyennant un fermage de 30 livres, à deux habitants de Clefcy, qui pourront y nourrir soixante-six vaches, trois chevaux et deux poulains.
Il me doit beaucoup de fermages.
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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