fermières
\fɛʁ.mjɛʁ\
The verdict
“fermières” is uncommon French (frequency #73,994 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,994
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fermière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fermieres · fermières · French
fermières · rank #73,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,994
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fela
Nearest frequency peer: fela (-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 « fermières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faussés
faussés
26,010 corpus weight
- feignasses
feignasses
26,009 corpus weight
- fela
fela
26,008 corpus weight
- fermières
fermières
26,007 corpus weight
- FESPACO
FESPACO
26,006 corpus weight
- fichez
fichez
26,004 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fermières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fermières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.mjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fermières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fermières is uncommon French at frequency #73,994 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛʁ.mjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fermière.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fermières in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fermières, spelled F-E-R-M-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fermière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fermières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fermières ne peuvent plus vendre leurs volailles, qu’elles ont dû déclarer, et n’apportent plus ni beurre ni œufs, n’en ayant pas assez pour les réquisitions.
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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