fis
\fi\
The verdict
“fis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,880) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,880
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fis · fis · French
fis · rank #16,880 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,880
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fig
Nearest frequency peer: fig (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « fis »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- fauteuils
fauteuils
83,124 corpus weight
- ferroviaires
ferroviaires
83,123 corpus weight
- fig
fig
83,122 corpus weight
- fis
fis
83,121 corpus weight
- fitness
fitness
83,120 corpus weight
- fosses
fosses
83,119 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fis » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fis »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fis is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "fo", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \fi\. Frequency #16,880 among 3,276 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
fis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "fo", "fm", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fis, spelled F-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de faire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je mis le moteur en mouvement, le fis tourner quelque minutes, puis je tirai sur la manette des gaz pour démarrer.
Le vampirisme ? fis-je, étonné d’avoir « dé-vampirisé » Edvard sans m’en être rendu compte.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).