fifre
\fifʁ\
The verdict
“fifre” is uncommon French (frequency #62,277 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,277
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de petite flûte traversière d’un son aigu en usage dans certaines armées et accompagnée par le tambourin, pour les fêtes traditionnelles en Provence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fifre · fifre · French
fifre · rank #62,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,277
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fif
Nearest frequency peer: fif (-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 « fifre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- fixons
fixons
37,721 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fifre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fifre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fifʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fifre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fifre is uncommon French at frequency #62,277 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fifʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
fifre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fifre, spelled F-I-F-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de petite flûte traversière d’un son aigu en usage dans certaines armées et accompagnée par le tambourin, pour les fêtes traditionnelles en Provence.
- 2Personne qui joue du fifre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fifre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il tenait son long et léger tambourin pendu au bras gauche par une courroie, et de la main du même bras portait à ses lèvres un petit fifre, pendant que de sa main droite il tambourinait, l’air crâne, la jambe en avant.
Il n’avait pas son pareil pour souffler dans le fifre et pour mener le bal.
This word in other languages
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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