Firminy
\fiʁ.mi.ni\
The verdict
“Firminy” is uncommon French (frequency #71,525 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,525
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-firminy · Firminy · French
Firminy · rank #71,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,525
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finding
Nearest frequency peer: finding (-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 « Firminy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- filetage
filetage
28,478 corpus weight
- finding
finding
28,477 corpus weight
- Firminy
Firminy
28,476 corpus weight
- fissurée
fissurée
28,475 corpus weight
- formulant
formulant
28,474 corpus weight
- foro
foro
28,473 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Firminy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Firminy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fiʁ.mi.ni\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Firminy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Firminy is uncommon French at frequency #71,525 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fiʁ.mi.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Firminy 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Firminy, spelled F-I-R-M-I-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Loire.
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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