firent

\fiʁ\

/\fiʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“firent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,326. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,326
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-firent · firent · French

firent · rank #10,326 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,326
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH femelles

Nearest frequency peer: femelles (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « firent »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « firent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

firent vs front
67% similar
firent vs forêt
50% similar
firent vs first
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for firent
PropertyValue
Headwordfirent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fiʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,326
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « firent »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).firentse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « femelles » (#10,325), « flemme » (#10,327), « faso » (#10,324). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « firent » est au #10,326. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around firent (IPA \fiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,326 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de faire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for firent, with forms such as "ffirent", "fiernt", and "firennt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "front", "forêt", "first", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 firent, spelled F-I-R-E-N-T.

Definition

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le roi l’attendait au haut des degrés du palais de Philippe-le-Bel; et là, les deux monarques, dit Juvenal des Ursins, s’entraccolèrent et firent grande chère l’un à l’autre.
  2. Ils firent et refirent le tour de la place, avec leurs serpents, serpentinement, avec un léger mouvement ondulatoire des genoux et des hanches.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffirent
  • fiernt
  • firennt
  • firentt
  • firetn
  • firnet
  • firrent
  • frient
  • ifrent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of firent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ffirent1fiernt2firennt1firentt1firetn2firnet2firrent1frient2
Edit distance from "firent"

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 "firent"?
"firent" is spelled F-I-R-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fiʁ\.
What does "firent" mean?
As a verb, "firent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de faire.
What words are commonly confused with "firent"?
"firent" is commonly confused with "front", "forêt", "first". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "firent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "firent" is \fiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "firent" come from?
"firent" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

flemme#10,327fusils#10,329exercé#10,320grèves#10,333

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

marges9 variantsconfus9 variantsmerdes9 variantsocéans9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list