fientes
\fjɑ̃t\
The verdict
“fientes” is uncommon French (frequency #78,426 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,426
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fiente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fientes · fientes · French
fientes · rank #78,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,426
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH festina
Nearest frequency peer: festina (-3 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 « fientes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Felder
Felder
21,580 corpus weight
- fendus
fendus
21,579 corpus weight
- festina
festina
21,578 corpus weight
- fientes
fientes
21,575 corpus weight
- filin
filin
21,572 corpus weight
- filosofia
filosofia
21,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fientes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fientes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fjɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fientes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fientes is uncommon French at frequency #78,426 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fjɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fiente.".
fientes has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fientes, spelled F-I-E-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fiente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fientes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fournil pleurait, les oies cacardaient dans la courette blanchie de fientes.
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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