frênes
\fʁɛn\
The verdict
“frênes” is uncommon French (frequency #53,967 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,967
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de frêne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frenes · frênes · French
frênes · rank #53,967 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,967
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH futilités
Nearest frequency peer: futilités (+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 « frênes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Foncia
Foncia
46,038 corpus weight
- fourrée
fourrée
46,037 corpus weight
- frênes
frênes
46,034 corpus weight
- futilités
futilités
46,033 corpus weight
- fâcheuses
fâcheuses
46,032 corpus weight
- fébrilité
fébrilité
46,031 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frênes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frênes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frênes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frênes is uncommon French at frequency #53,967 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de frêne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for frênes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 frênes, spelled F-R-Ê-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de frêne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frênes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les lentilles d’eau font de la roubine un chemin vert tendre entre saules et frênes.
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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