fermentés
\fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“fermentés” is uncommon French (frequency #70,641 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,641
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de fermenté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fermentes · fermentés · French
fermentés · rank #70,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,641
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fermont
Nearest frequency peer: Fermont (+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 « fermentés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fauvette
fauvette
29,362 corpus weight
- fermentés
fermentés
29,360 corpus weight
- Fermont
Fermont
29,359 corpus weight
- ferrés
ferrés
29,358 corpus weight
- fett
fett
29,357 corpus weight
- fibromyalgie
fibromyalgie
29,354 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fermentés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fermentés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fermentés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fermentés is uncommon French at frequency #70,641 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de fermenté.".
fermentés doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 fermentés, spelled F-E-R-M-E-N-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de fermenté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fermentés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le quatorzième jour, elle partit comme elle le faisait fréquemment pour aller tuer quelque gibier, car il était préférable que Burns ne mangeât que de la nourriture fraîche, à l’exclusion de viande fumée et d’aliments fermentés.
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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