ferrailleurs
\fɛ.ʁa.jœʁ\
The verdict
“ferrailleurs” is uncommon French (frequency #96,925 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,925
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ferrailleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferrailleurs · ferrailleurs · French
ferrailleurs · rank #96,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,925
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fermentées
Nearest frequency peer: fermentées (-2 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 « ferrailleurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fermentées
fermentées
3,078 corpus weight
- ferrailleurs
ferrailleurs
3,076 corpus weight
- fiducies
fiducies
3,074 corpus weight
- finage
finage
3,073 corpus weight
- finissante
finissante
3,072 corpus weight
- flemmarde
flemmarde
3,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ferrailleurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferrailleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁa.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #96,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ferrailleurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ferrailleurs is uncommon French at frequency #96,925 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛ.ʁa.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ferrailleur.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ferrailleurs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ferrailleurs, spelled F-E-R-R-A-I-L-L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ferrailleur.
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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