fermi
\fɛʁ.mi\
The verdict
“fermi” is uncommon French (frequency #69,836 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,836
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne unité de mesure de longueur, équivalent du femtomètre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fermi · fermi · French
fermi · rank #69,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,836
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feuillée
Nearest frequency peer: feuillée (+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 « fermi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faner
faner
30,169 corpus weight
- Fatiha
Fatiha
30,168 corpus weight
- fermi
fermi
30,165 corpus weight
- feuillée
feuillée
30,164 corpus weight
- fibreuse
fibreuse
30,163 corpus weight
- fiduciaires
fiduciaires
30,162 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fermi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fermi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.mi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fermi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fermi is uncommon French at frequency #69,836 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛʁ.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne unité de mesure de longueur, équivalent du femtomètre.".
fermi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fermi, spelled F-E-R-M-I.
Definition
- 1Ancienne unité de mesure de longueur, équivalent du femtomètre.
Synonyms
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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