fermenter
\fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“fermenter” is uncommon French (frequency #57,269 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,269
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être en fermentation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fermenter · fermenter · French
fermenter · rank #57,269 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,269
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH figurative
Nearest frequency peer: figurative (+3 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 « fermenter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fares
fares
42,737 corpus weight
- farniente
farniente
42,736 corpus weight
- fermenter
fermenter
42,732 corpus weight
- figurative
figurative
42,729 corpus weight
- finally
finally
42,728 corpus weight
- fixette
fixette
42,727 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fermenter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fermenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fermenter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fermenter is uncommon French at frequency #57,269 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fermenter, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fermenter, spelled F-E-R-M-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être en fermentation.
- 2S’agiter ou bouillonner, en parlant des esprits, des passions dangereuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fermenter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jus contient, en outre du principe sucré, une foule de matières étrangères dont quelques-unes sont susceptibles de fermenter et d’altérer le sucre.
Les colères entassées fermentant dans le silence depuis vingt ans, grondaient de toutes parts ; la pensée se déchaînait, les livres qui d’ordinaire n’entraient en France que secrètement, commençaient à s’éditer à Paris.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).