frat
\fɹæt\
The verdict
“frat” is uncommon French (frequency #84,817 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,817
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fraternité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frat · frat · French
frat · rank #84,817 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,817
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH franciscaines
Nearest frequency peer: franciscaines (-2 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 « frat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Foued
Foued
15,189 corpus weight
- fouteur
fouteur
15,188 corpus weight
- franciscain…
franciscaines
15,186 corpus weight
- frat
frat
15,184 corpus weight
- FTC
FTC
15,182 corpus weight
- fusilier
fusilier
15,180 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɹæt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frat is uncommon French at frequency #84,817 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɹæt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fraternité.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for frat, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is frat, spelled F-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Fraternité.
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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