ficelés
\fi.sə.le\
The verdict
“ficelés” is uncommon French (frequency #83,874 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,874
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de ficelé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ficeles · ficelés · French
ficelés · rank #83,874 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,874
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fichais
Nearest frequency peer: fichais (+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 « ficelés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fermentatio…
fermentations
16,132 corpus weight
- fessait
fessait
16,129 corpus weight
- ficelés
ficelés
16,127 corpus weight
- fichais
fichais
16,126 corpus weight
- fidélités
fidélités
16,124 corpus weight
- finalisés
finalisés
16,123 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ficelés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ficelés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fi.sə.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ficelés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ficelés is uncommon French at frequency #83,874 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fi.sə.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de ficelé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ficelés in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ficelés, spelled F-I-C-E-L-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de ficelé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ficelés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon cheval, sellé et bridé, ronge son frein et piaffe à ma porte; mes effets encombrent le patio, ficelés et prêts à être chargés.
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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