ferrique
\fɛ.ʁik\
The verdict
“ferrique” is uncommon French (frequency #93,774 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,774
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit des composés de fer où le fer est trivalent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferrique · ferrique · French
ferrique · rank #93,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,774
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 137,178
- PHOTO-FINISH Ferrandi
Nearest frequency peer: Ferrandi (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ferrique”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- favorisaient
favorisaient
6,232 corpus weight
- Fermin
Fermin
6,230 corpus weight
- Ferrandi
Ferrandi
6,229 corpus weight
- ferrique
ferrique
6,227 corpus weight
- fissiles
fissiles
6,225 corpus weight
- flibustier
flibustier
6,222 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ferrique” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ferrique” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ferrique is uncommon French at frequency #93,774 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɛ.ʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit des composés de fer où le fer est trivalent.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ferrique, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ferrique, spelled F-E-R-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Se dit des composés de fer où le fer est trivalent.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.