fichais
\fi.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“fichais” is uncommon French (frequency #83,875 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,875
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ficher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fichais · fichais · French
fichais · rank #83,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,875
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ficelés
Nearest frequency peer: ficelés (-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 « fichais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Finnegan
Finnegan
16,122 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fichais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fichais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fichais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fichais is uncommon French at frequency #83,875 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fi.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fichais, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fichais, spelled F-I-C-H-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ficher.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ficher.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).