ferments
\fɛʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“ferments” is uncommon French (frequency #60,789 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,789
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ferment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferments · ferments · French
ferments · rank #60,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,789
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FFSA
Nearest frequency peer: FFSA (+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 « ferments »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- favorisa
favorisa
39,215 corpus weight
- ferments
ferments
39,212 corpus weight
- FFSA
FFSA
39,211 corpus weight
- fichée
fichée
39,210 corpus weight
- finals
finals
39,209 corpus weight
- fio
fio
39,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ferments » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferments |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ferments » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ferments is uncommon French at frequency #60,789 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛʁ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ferment.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ferments in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ferments, spelled F-E-R-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ferment.
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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