ferron
\fɛ.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“ferron” is uncommon French (frequency #55,285 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,285
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marchand de fer, ouvrier qui travaille le fer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferron · ferron · French
ferron · rank #55,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,285
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Febvre
Nearest frequency peer: Febvre (-3 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 « ferron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Favreau
Favreau
44,720 corpus weight
- Febvre
Febvre
44,719 corpus weight
- ferron
ferron
44,716 corpus weight
- flambées
flambées
44,713 corpus weight
- Flanagan
Flanagan
44,712 corpus weight
- fléchisseme…
fléchissement
44,711 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ferron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ferron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ferron is uncommon French at frequency #55,285 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛ.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Marchand de fer, ouvrier qui travaille le fer.".
ferron has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ferron, spelled F-E-R-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Marchand de fer, ouvrier qui travaille le fer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ferron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était menuisier, ferron, (…) et même un peu mécanicien.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).