fermais
\fɛʁ.mɛ\
The verdict
“fermais” is uncommon French (frequency #67,515 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,515
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fermer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fermais · fermais · French
fermais · rank #67,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,515
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fermerait
Nearest frequency peer: fermerait (+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 « fermais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fermais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fermais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fermais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fermais is uncommon French at frequency #67,515 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for fermais in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fermais, spelled F-E-R-M-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fermer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fermer.
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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