fraternels
\fʁa.tɛʁ.nɛl\
The verdict
“fraternels” is uncommon French (frequency #74,014 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,014
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de fraternel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fraternels · fraternels · French
fraternels · rank #74,014 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,014
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fransaskois
Nearest frequency peer: Fransaskois (-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 « fraternels »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fournil
fournil
25,990 corpus weight
- fractionner
fractionner
25,989 corpus weight
- Fransaskois
Fransaskois
25,988 corpus weight
- fraternels
fraternels
25,987 corpus weight
- freeride
freeride
25,986 corpus weight
- fécondés
fécondés
25,983 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fraternels » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fraternels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁa.tɛʁ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fraternels » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fraternels is uncommon French at frequency #74,014 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁa.tɛʁ.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de fraternel.".
fraternels doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fraternels, spelled F-R-A-T-E-R-N-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de fraternel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fraternels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on aura "déroité" ou mieux "déroisé" (comme on dit déboiser), l’armée française disparaîtra car les peuples sont naturellement fraternels.
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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