Fernande
\fɛʁ.nɑ̃d\
The verdict
“Fernande” is uncommon French (frequency #54,586 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,586
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fernande · Fernande · French
Fernande · rank #54,586 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,586
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferrant
Nearest frequency peer: ferrant (+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 « Fernande »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- FCO
FCO
45,418 corpus weight
- feignasse
feignasse
45,417 corpus weight
- Fernande
Fernande
45,415 corpus weight
- ferrant
ferrant
45,414 corpus weight
- filmes
filmes
45,413 corpus weight
- financeurs
financeurs
45,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fernande » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fernande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.nɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fernande » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fernande is uncommon French at frequency #54,586 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fɛʁ.nɑ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Fernande in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Fernande, spelled F-E-R-N-A-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fernande appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est sûr en tout cas d’avoir été le premier homme dans le lit de Fernande, mais nullement sûr de l’avoir été dans sa vie.
"C’était l’enfer, la misère! On disait : "Mais c’est un gars manqué"", explique Marielle Hamelin, grande amie de Fernande Huot qui a elle aussi dû faire fi de tous les préjugés de l'époque pour pouvoir pratiquer le sport qu'elle avait choisi.
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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