fieffé
\fjɛ.fe\
The verdict
“fieffé” is uncommon French (frequency #81,162 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,162
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tient en fief ; qui est donné en fief.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fieffe · fieffé · French
fieffé · rank #81,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,162
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feue
Nearest frequency peer: feue (-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 « fieffé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ferrures
ferrures
18,842 corpus weight
- fertilisant
fertilisant
18,841 corpus weight
- feue
feue
18,840 corpus weight
- fieffé
fieffé
18,839 corpus weight
- figurément
figurément
18,838 corpus weight
- finot
finot
18,837 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fieffé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fieffé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fjɛ.fe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fieffé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fieffé is uncommon French at frequency #81,162 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fjɛ.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
fieffé has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fieffé, spelled F-I-E-F-F-É.
Definition
- 1Qui tient en fief ; qui est donné en fief.
- 2Qui porte au suprême degré un défaut ou un vice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fieffé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si le seigneur attend conseil, aide et service militaire de son vassal fieffé, ce dernier doit recevoir une terre capable de produire, un château en état d’être défendu, même si à tout moment le suzerain peut demander qu’il lui soit ouvert.
Fieffé : au sens premier, celui qui possède un fief ou du moins qui en a l’usage. À partir du XVI ᵉ siècle, le mot prend un sens figuré : est « fieffé » celui qui possède au plus haut degré un défaut, comme par exemple « un fieffé menteur ».
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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