frais
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#899
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
frais is anFrenchadj. It means: Indique un état de fraîcheur, de bonne conservation. Pronounced \fʁɛ\. It ranks #899 in French word frequency. Often confused with frs and fric.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for frais is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #899 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for frais, with forms such as "faris", "ffrais", and "fraiss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "frs", "fric", "fuis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is frais, spelled F-R-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Indique un état de fraîcheur, de bonne conservation.
- 2Récent, qui vient d’arriver.
- 3De température assez basse.
- 4Qualifie un vent relativement fort et froid, favorable à la navigation.
- 5Qui a gardé l’éclat de la jeunesse.
- 6Cool.
- 7Beau.
- 8Qui se trouve dans une situation défavorable.
- 9Rafraîchissant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: faris,ffrais,fraiss,frasi,frias,frrais,rfais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for frais
Misspelling Variants of "frais"
Frequency rank: #899 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter F in our French index: