fif
\fif\
The verdict
“fif” is uncommon French (frequency #62,276 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,276
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme efféminé ou homosexuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fif · fif · French
fif · rank #62,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,276
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fifre
Nearest frequency peer: fifre (+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 « fif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- feist
feist
37,729 corpus weight
- Fernández
Fernández
37,728 corpus weight
- feuillette
feuillette
37,727 corpus weight
- fif
fif
37,725 corpus weight
- fifre
fifre
37,724 corpus weight
- finisses
finisses
37,723 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fif\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #62,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fif is uncommon French at frequency #62,276 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for fif in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fif, spelled F-I-F.
Definition
- 1Homme efféminé ou homosexuel.
- 2La tronche, la tête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si t’aimes les gars, t’aimes les gars, j’ai pas de problème avec ça, j’en connais plein, des fifs.
Je vais t'en mettre quelques uns à la fif !
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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