fidelis
The verdict
“fidelis” is uncommon French (frequency #85,720 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,720
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Digne de confiance, fidèle, sûr, solide, loyal, sincère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fidelis · fidelis · French
fidelis · rank #85,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,720
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feud
Nearest frequency peer: feud (-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 « fidelis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faz
faz
14,284 corpus weight
- feste
feste
14,283 corpus weight
- feud
feud
14,282 corpus weight
- fidelis
fidelis
14,281 corpus weight
- filera
filera
14,280 corpus weight
- fister
fister
14,279 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fidelis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fidelis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fidelis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fidelis is uncommon French at frequency #85,720 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for fidelis in our 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fidelis, spelled F-I-D-E-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Digne de confiance, fidèle, sûr, solide, loyal, sincère.
- 2Fidèle en amitié, ami, amical, affectueux.
- 3Qui inspire confiance, véritable, solide, ferme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fidelis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
fidelis alicui ; fidelis in aliquem.
fidele consilium
Antonyms
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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