frère
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#542
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
frère is aFrenchnoun. It means: Homme ou garçon enfant du même père et de la même mère qu’un ou plusieurs autre(s) individu(s) ; membre masculin d’une adelphie. Pronounced \fʁɛʁ\. It ranks #542 in French word frequency. Often confused with Freud and frise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for frère is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #542 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for frère, with forms such as "ffrère", "frere", and "frrèe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Freud", "frise", "frite", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is frère, spelled F-R-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Homme ou garçon enfant du même père et de la même mère qu’un ou plusieurs autre(s) individu(s) ; membre masculin d’une adelphie.
- 2Tous les hommes en général comme étant tous sortis d’un même père et d’une même mère, comme étant tous de la même espèce.
- 3Tous les chrétiens, comme étant tous enfants de Dieu par le baptême.
- 4Compagnon d’une même cause.
- 5Choses qui ont entre elles une ressemblance, une communauté au moins apparente. Utilisé seulement pour les noms masculins.
- 6Terme religieux marquant l’appartenance à un ordre.
- 7Membre d’un clan, d'une confrérie, etc.
- 8ou Forme d’adresse amicale, parfois non-genré, → voir frère
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffrère,frere,frrèe,frrère,frèer,frèrre,fèrre,rfère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for frère
Misspelling Variants of "frère"
Frequency rank: #542 in French
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