fîmes

\fim\

/\fim\/ verb

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The verdict

“fîmes” is uncommon French (frequency #90,756 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,756
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du passé simple de faire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fimes · fîmes · French

fîmes · rank #90,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,756
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH féria

Nearest frequency peer: féria (-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 « fîmes »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fîmes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fîmes
PropertyValue
Headwordfîmes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fim\
Letters5
Frequency rank#90,756
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « fîmes » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).fîmestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « féria » (#90,755), « féminisé » (#90,754), « gambienne » (#90,758). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fîmes » est au #90,756. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fîmes is uncommon French at frequency #90,756 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fim\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du pluriel du passé simple de faire.".

fîmes has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fîmes, spelled F-Î-M-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du pluriel du passé simple de faire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fîmes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nous fîmes griller des viandes dans le jardin et bûmes un excellent vosne-romanée 1959.
  2. nous fìmes du soleil ce qui la démontre

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fîmes"?
"fîmes" is spelled F-Î-M-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fim\.
What does "fîmes" mean?
As a verb, "fîmes" means: Première personne du pluriel du passé simple de faire.
How do you pronounce "fîmes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fîmes" is \fim\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fîmes" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fîmes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

féria#90,755gator#90,760fotos#90,737gongs#90,777

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list