fermail
French, noun/fɛʁ.maj/
fermail is spelled F-E-R-M-A-I-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written French, the 298,135th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fermail is a French masculine noun meaning “clasp, buckle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agrafe, boucle, broche tenant fermé un vêtement, une ceinture, etc”.
What does fermail mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineclasp, buckle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Agrafe, boucle, broche tenant fermé un vêtement, une ceinture, etc. 2. Fermoir d’un livre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fermail
- fermaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fermail?
- /fɛʁ.maj/
- \feʁ.maj\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fermail in French?
fermail appears about once in every 91 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).