fratricides
\fʁa.tʁi.sid\
The verdict
“fratricides” is uncommon French (frequency #67,528 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,528
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fratricide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fratricides · fratricides · French
fratricides · rank #67,528 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,528
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frappantes
Nearest frequency peer: frappantes (-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 « fratricides »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fontvieille
Fontvieille
32,478 corpus weight
- formerait
formerait
32,477 corpus weight
- foufoune
foufoune
32,476 corpus weight
- foutra
foutra
32,475 corpus weight
- frappantes
frappantes
32,474 corpus weight
- fratricides
fratricides
32,473 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fratricides » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fratricides |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁa.tʁi.sid\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fratricides » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fratricides is uncommon French at frequency #67,528 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁa.tʁi.sid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fratricide.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fratricides, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fratricides, spelled F-R-A-T-R-I-C-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fratricide.
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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