ferrer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,857
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ferrer is aFrenchverb. It means: Garnir de fer. Pronounced \fe.ʁe\. Often confused with ferry and ferri.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ferrer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fe.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,857 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ferrer, with forms such as "efrrer", "ferer", and "fererr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ferry", "ferri", "forer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ferrer, spelled F-E-R-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Garnir de fer.
- 2Garnir de fers les sabots d’un cheval, d’un mulet, etc., à l’aide de clous.
- 3Garnir les extrémités d’un cordon, d’un lacet, de fer-blanc, de cuivre ou d’autre métal.
- 4Garnir d’or, d’argent, etc., ce qui est ordinairement garni de fer.
- 5Connaître à fond telle ou telle question.
- 6Engager par un coup sec du poignet la pointe de l’hameçon dans la bouche du poisson qui a mordu.
- 7Engager par un coup sec du poignet la pointe de l’hameçon dans la bouche du poisson qui a mordu.
- 8Séduire une dupe pour la berner, lui soutirer de l’argent.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efrrer,ferer,fererr,ferrerr,ferrre,fferrer,frerer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ferrer
Misspelling Variants of "ferrer"
Frequency rank: #22,857 in French
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Nearby French words
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