fic
\fik\
The verdict
“fic” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,762) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,762
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verrue à pédoncule étroit ressemblant à une figue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fic · fic · French
fic · rank #46,762 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,762
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FH
Nearest frequency peer: FH (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « fic »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- fessiers
fessiers
53,242 corpus weight
- fey
fey
53,241 corpus weight
- FH
FH
53,240 corpus weight
- fic
fic
53,239 corpus weight
- fila
fila
53,238 corpus weight
- filmant
filmant
53,237 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fic » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fik\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fic »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fic is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "fo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fik\. Frequency #46,762 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Verrue à pédoncule étroit ressemblant à une figue.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fic in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "fo", "fm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fic, spelled F-I-C.
Definition
- 1Verrue à pédoncule étroit ressemblant à une figue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ce cheval a un fic.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).