fratries
\fʁa.tʁi\
The verdict
“fratries” is uncommon French (frequency #91,712 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,712
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fratrie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fratries · fratries · French
fratries · rank #91,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,712
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frapperont
Nearest frequency peer: frapperont (-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 « fratries »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fortuits
fortuits
8,294 corpus weight
- frapperont
frapperont
8,290 corpus weight
- fratries
fratries
8,289 corpus weight
- froissement
froissement
8,287 corpus weight
- FSH
FSH
8,286 corpus weight
- fundamental
fundamental
8,284 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fratries » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fratries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁa.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fratries » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fratries is uncommon French at frequency #91,712 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁa.tʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fratrie.".
fratries doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fratries, spelled F-R-A-T-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fratrie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fratries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans notre pratique professionnelle de placement familial spécialisé, nous préconisons souvent de dissocier les fratries dans les accueils familiaux.
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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