fir
\fɜː(r)\
The verdict
“fir” is uncommon French (frequency #76,579 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,579
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sapin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fir · fir · French
fir · rank #76,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,579
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fions
Nearest frequency peer: fions (-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 « fir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- filiations
filiations
23,426 corpus weight
- finlandaises
finlandaises
23,424 corpus weight
- fions
fions
23,423 corpus weight
- fir
fir
23,422 corpus weight
- flambent
flambent
23,421 corpus weight
- flegmatique
flegmatique
23,419 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɜː(r)\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fir is uncommon French at frequency #76,579 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɜː(r)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sapin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fir in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fir, spelled F-I-R.
Definition
- 1Sapin.
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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