feue
\fø\
The verdict
“feue” is uncommon French (frequency #81,161 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,161
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de feu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feue · feue · French
feue · rank #81,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,161
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fertilisant
Nearest frequency peer: fertilisant (-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 « feue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ferrures
ferrures
18,842 corpus weight
- fertilisant
fertilisant
18,841 corpus weight
- feue
feue
18,840 corpus weight
- fieffé
fieffé
18,839 corpus weight
- figurément
figurément
18,838 corpus weight
- finot
finot
18,837 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fø\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feue is uncommon French at frequency #81,161 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de feu.".
feue doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is feue, spelled F-E-U-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de feu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how feue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son article 39 affirme haut et fort et simplement, messieurs, que les esclaves sont réputés meubles et comme tel il a été légué à Lory par feue Mme Routier, sa tante…
Il était à peu près minuit, en dessous, sur l’autre face de la boule terrestre, dans les jardins de la feue reine Pomaré, où la scène se passait.
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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