freire
\fɾˈɐj.ɾɨ\
The verdict
“freire” is uncommon French (frequency #69,853 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,853
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frère, moine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-freire · freire · French
freire · rank #69,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,853
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frangipane
Nearest frequency peer: frangipane (-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 « freire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fourchue
fourchue
30,151 corpus weight
- FPF
FPF
30,150 corpus weight
- frangipane
frangipane
30,149 corpus weight
- freire
freire
30,148 corpus weight
- frisée
frisée
30,147 corpus weight
- frugalité
frugalité
30,145 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « freire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | freire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɾˈɐj.ɾɨ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « freire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
freire is uncommon French at frequency #69,853 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɾˈɐj.ɾɨ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Frère, moine.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for freire, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is freire, spelled F-R-E-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Frère, moine.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).