Ferréol
The verdict
“Ferréol” is uncommon French (frequency #52,067 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,067
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferreol · Ferréol · French
Ferréol · rank #52,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,067
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fermons
Nearest frequency peer: fermons (-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 « Ferréol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fender
fender
47,937 corpus weight
- Fergus
Fergus
47,936 corpus weight
- fermons
fermons
47,935 corpus weight
- Ferréol
Ferréol
47,934 corpus weight
- fet
fet
47,933 corpus weight
- ficus
ficus
47,932 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ferréol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ferréol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ferréol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ferréol is uncommon French at frequency #52,067 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Ferréol doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Ferréol, spelled F-E-R-R-É-O-L.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ferréol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’autre jour, le père Couturier me montre son vitrail : saint Ferréol et saint Ferjeux. De retour à la maison, je tombe, dans la Légende dorée, sur l’histoire de saint Julien de Brioude qui fut décapité et dont la tête fut retrouvée entre les mains de son compagnon Ferréol, martyr comme lui.
Ferréol Cannard.
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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