ferrailles
\fe.ʁɑj\
The verdict
“ferrailles” is uncommon French (frequency #73,164 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,164
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ferraille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferrailles · ferrailles · French
ferrailles · rank #73,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,164
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fayence
Nearest frequency peer: Fayence (-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 « ferrailles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- falsifiée
falsifiée
26,841 corpus weight
- fath
fath
26,840 corpus weight
- fauconnerie
fauconnerie
26,839 corpus weight
- Fayence
Fayence
26,838 corpus weight
- ferrailles
ferrailles
26,837 corpus weight
- festa
festa
26,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ferrailles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferrailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fe.ʁɑj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ferrailles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ferrailles is uncommon French at frequency #73,164 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fe.ʁɑj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ferraille.".
ferrailles has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ferrailles, spelled F-E-R-R-A-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ferraille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ferrailles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On allait pouvoir se déterrer, se déboulotter, se décoller du sol, se refaire un cou pour porter la tête, se refaire une tête pour l’honneur, haut les cœurs, le front pur, famille patrie, mitrailles grandesques, ça sent la poudre, ferrailles à vendre.
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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