fichtre
\fiʃtʁ\
The verdict
“fichtre” is uncommon French (frequency #53,957 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,957
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Expression marquant la surprise, le désarroi, parfois l’admiration. → voir bigre, diable etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fichtre · fichtre · French
fichtre · rank #53,957 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,957
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fingers
Nearest frequency peer: fingers (+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 « fichtre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fermaient
fermaient
46,048 corpus weight
- Ferney
Ferney
46,047 corpus weight
- fichtre
fichtre
46,044 corpus weight
- fingers
fingers
46,043 corpus weight
- finiraient
finiraient
46,042 corpus weight
- flagrants
flagrants
46,041 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fichtre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fichtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \fiʃtʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fichtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fichtre is uncommon French at frequency #53,957 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \fiʃtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ou Expression marquant la surprise, le désarroi, parfois l’admiration. → voir bigre, diable etc.".
fichtre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fichtre, spelled F-I-C-H-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1ou Expression marquant la surprise, le désarroi, parfois l’admiration. → voir bigre, diable etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fichtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Philosophe Dumarsais, […] , donnait à un jeune Seigneur des leçons de Grammaire Française. Celui-ci n'entendant pas toute la fine Métaphysique de son Maître , s'impatiente & prononce avec une espèce de courroux: « Fichtre, je n'en viendrai jamais à bout ». Du Marsais lui répond du ton le plus phlegmatique: « Monsieur, ce mot n'est pas Français : on dit…
La gaieté ne l’abandonnait pas pour ça. Fichtre non !
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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