ferrait
\fɛ.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“ferrait” is uncommon French (frequency #94,805 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,805
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ferrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferrait · ferrait · French
ferrait · rank #94,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,805
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fermoirs
Nearest frequency peer: fermoirs (-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 « ferrait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- feeder
feeder
5,201 corpus weight
- fermoirs
fermoirs
5,197 corpus weight
- ferrait
ferrait
5,196 corpus weight
- figent
figent
5,194 corpus weight
- filerai
filerai
5,193 corpus weight
- filtrez
filtrez
5,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ferrait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ferrait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ferrait is uncommon French at frequency #94,805 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛ.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ferrer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ferrait in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ferrait, spelled F-E-R-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ferrer.
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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