fraud
\fɹɔːd\
The verdict
“fraud” is uncommon French (frequency #80,232 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,232
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tromperie, escroquerie, arnaque, fraude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fraud · fraud · French
fraud · rank #80,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,232
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frelaté
Nearest frequency peer: frelaté (+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 « fraud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- foulent
foulent
19,773 corpus weight
- fountain
fountain
19,772 corpus weight
- fractale
fractale
19,771 corpus weight
- fraud
fraud
19,769 corpus weight
- frelaté
frelaté
19,768 corpus weight
- fulgurantes
fulgurantes
19,766 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fraud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fraud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɹɔːd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fraud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fraud is uncommon French at frequency #80,232 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɹɔːd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tromperie, escroquerie, arnaque, fraude.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fraud, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 fraud, spelled F-R-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Tromperie, escroquerie, arnaque, fraude.
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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