feus
\fø\
The verdict
“feus” is uncommon French (frequency #88,627 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,627
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de feu, personnes décédées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feus · feus · French
feus · rank #88,627 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,627
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feur
Nearest frequency peer: feur (-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 « feus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ferenc
Ferenc
11,378 corpus weight
- ferrys
ferrys
11,377 corpus weight
- festi
festi
11,376 corpus weight
- feur
feur
11,375 corpus weight
- feus
feus
11,374 corpus weight
- Feyzin
Feyzin
11,373 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fø\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feus is uncommon French at frequency #88,627 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de feu, personnes décédées.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for feus, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is feus, spelled F-E-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de feu, personnes décédées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how feus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mes feus grands-pères.
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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