fifres
\fifʁ\
The verdict
“fifres” is uncommon French (frequency #61,531 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,531
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fifre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fifres · fifres · French
fifres · rank #61,531 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,531
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fiancer
Nearest frequency peer: fiancer (-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 « fifres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fermeront
fermeront
38,472 corpus weight
- fiancer
fiancer
38,471 corpus weight
- fifres
fifres
38,470 corpus weight
- financera
financera
38,469 corpus weight
- fluctuant
fluctuant
38,468 corpus weight
- fonctionnem…
fonctionnements
38,466 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fifres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fifres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fifʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fifres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fifres is uncommon French at frequency #61,531 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fifʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fifre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fifres in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fifres, spelled F-I-F-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fifre.
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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