ferrant
\fɛ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“ferrant” is uncommon French (frequency #54,587 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,587
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ferre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferrant · ferrant · French
ferrant · rank #54,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,587
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fernande
Nearest frequency peer: Fernande (-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 « ferrant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- finitude
finitude
45,411 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ferrant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferrant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ferrant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ferrant is uncommon French at frequency #54,587 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɛ.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ferre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ferrant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ferrant, spelled F-E-R-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui ferre.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).