Freitas
The verdict
“Freitas” is uncommon French (frequency #83,896 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,896
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-freitas · Freitas · French
Freitas · rank #83,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,896
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH freinages
Nearest frequency peer: freinages (-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 « Freitas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fourniret
Fourniret
16,109 corpus weight
- freed
freed
16,107 corpus weight
- freinages
freinages
16,106 corpus weight
- Freitas
Freitas
16,105 corpus weight
- friables
friables
16,104 corpus weight
- fricassée
fricassée
16,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Freitas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Freitas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Freitas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Freitas is uncommon French at frequency #83,896 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Freitas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Freitas, spelled F-R-E-I-T-A-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Freitas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux Jeux européens de Cracovie (Pologne), le jeune Français (16 ans) a glané, mardi, l’or face au Portugais Marcos Freitas.
Le reggae dub d’Hollie Cook (photo), la soul créole acoustique de la harpiste Sophye Soliveau, les performances de la Sud-Coréenne Okkyung Lee ou encore le piano fracassé du Brésilien Amaro Freitas sont à voir au festival Banlieues Bleues, du 8 mars au 5 avril, dans 13 villes d’Île-de-France.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).