fesch
\fɛʃ\
The verdict
“fesch” is uncommon French (frequency #63,749 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,749
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - joli, gentil, pimpant, coquet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fesch · fesch · French
fesch · rank #63,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,749
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fermoir
Nearest frequency peer: fermoir (-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 « fesch »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fein
fein
36,255 corpus weight
- fermoir
fermoir
36,253 corpus weight
- fesch
fesch
36,252 corpus weight
- festins
festins
36,251 corpus weight
- Fibonacci
Fibonacci
36,250 corpus weight
- fibreux
fibreux
36,249 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fesch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fesch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fesch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fesch is uncommon French at frequency #63,749 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "joli, gentil, pimpant, coquet.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fesch in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fesch, spelled F-E-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1joli, gentil, pimpant, coquet.
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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