férus
\fe.ʁy\
The verdict
“férus” is uncommon French (frequency #54,604 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,604
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de féru.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferus · férus · French
férus · rank #54,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,604
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH galantes
Nearest frequency peer: galantes (+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 « férus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frette
frette
45,401 corpus weight
- friendzone
friendzone
45,400 corpus weight
- frontaux
frontaux
45,399 corpus weight
- férus
férus
45,397 corpus weight
- galantes
galantes
45,396 corpus weight
- garantira
garantira
45,393 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « férus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | férus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fe.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « férus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
férus is uncommon French at frequency #54,604 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fe.ʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de féru.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for férus, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is férus, spelled F-É-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de féru.
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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