ferrat
French, noun
ferrat is spelled F-E-R-R-A-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 43,844th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ferrat is a French masculine noun meaning “A kind of fish found in Lake Geneva. Also spelled féra (feminine) or ferat (masculine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ferrât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ferrer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Une des espèces de poissons, corégones du lac Léman (France et Suisse)”.
What does ferrat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineA kind of fish found in Lake Geneva. Also spelled féra (feminine) or ferat (masculine).
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ferrer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Une des espèces de poissons, corégones du lac Léman (France et Suisse).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ferrat
- ferrats plural
- féra
- férat
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ferrat in French?
ferrat appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).