fissurer
\fi.sy.ʁe\
The verdict
“fissurer” is uncommon French (frequency #66,736 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,736
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Provoquer des fissures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fissurer · fissurer · French
fissurer · rank #66,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,736
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finançait
Nearest frequency peer: finançait (-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 « fissurer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- feignants
feignants
33,268 corpus weight
- ferre
ferre
33,267 corpus weight
- finançait
finançait
33,266 corpus weight
- fissurer
fissurer
33,265 corpus weight
- flam
flam
33,264 corpus weight
- flatulences
flatulences
33,262 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fissurer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fissurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.sy.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fissurer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fissurer is uncommon French at frequency #66,736 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fi.sy.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for fissurer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fissurer, spelled F-I-S-S-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Provoquer des fissures.
- 2Diviser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fissurer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a montré sa force, ramené l’ordre, mais c’était replâtrer en hâte un mur qui n’est pas sain : tôt ou tard, tout se fissurera.
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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