ferme
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,138
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ferme is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a de la consistance, qui offre une certaine résistance. Pronounced \fɛʁm\. It ranks #1,138 in French word frequency. Often confused with fête and free.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ferme is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁm\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,138 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ferme, with forms such as "efrme", "femre", and "ferem". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fête", "free", "fume", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ferme, spelled F-E-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a de la consistance, qui offre une certaine résistance.
- 2Qui tient fixement.
- 3Dont les propriétés sont stables.
- 4Qui se tient solidement, qui ne chancelle pas.
- 5Vigoureux, fort, en bonne santé
- 6Qui a le caractère de la vigueur, désigne une manière d’exécuter vigoureuse et hardie.
- 7Qui a de la solidité morale, qui ne se laisse ni changer ni détourner ; constant, invariable, inébranlable.
- 8Qui ne se laisse point abattre par l’adversité, intimider par le péril.
- 9Se dit des choses en un sens analogue, de la volonté, l'espérance, la foi…
- 10Solide, assuré ; qui n'hésite ni ne tremble.
- 11Stable, dépourvu de variations.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efrme,femre,ferem,fermme,ferrme,fferme,freme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ferme
Misspelling Variants of "ferme"
Frequency rank: #1,138 in French
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