freaks

\fʁik\

/\fʁik\/ noun

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The verdict

“freaks” is uncommon French (frequency #63,771 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,771
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de freak.

Corpus desk

Index FR-freaks · freaks · French

freaks · rank #63,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,771
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH franglais

Nearest frequency peer: franglais (-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 « freaks »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « freaks » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for freaks
PropertyValue
Headwordfreaks
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fʁik\
Letters6
Frequency rank#63,771
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « freaks » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.freakstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « franglais » (#63,770), « Freetown » (#63,772), « franchissait » (#63,769). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « freaks » est au #63,771. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

freaks is uncommon French at frequency #63,771 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de freak.".

freaks doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is freaks, spelled F-R-E-A-K-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de freak.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how freaks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les « freaks » sont les premiers sujets traités par Diane Arbus dès lors qu’elle prend confiance en elle et qu’elle endosse sa vocation de photographe.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "freaks"?
"freaks" is spelled F-R-E-A-K-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁik\.
What does "freaks" mean?
As a noun, "freaks" means: Pluriel de freak.
How do you pronounce "freaks"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "freaks" is \fʁik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "freaks" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "freaks", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

frémit#63,774giving#63,793gouges#63,798grives#63,802

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list