fy
The verdict
“fy” is uncommon French (frequency #90,752 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,752
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Possessif de la première personne du singulier ; provoque la mutation nasale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fy · fy · French
fy · rank #90,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,752
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH futebol
Nearest frequency peer: futebol (-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 « fy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frétille
frétille
9,251 corpus weight
- futebol
futebol
9,250 corpus weight
- fy
fy
9,249 corpus weight
- Félicia
Félicia
9,248 corpus weight
- féminisé
féminisé
9,247 corpus weight
- féria
féria
9,246 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #90,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fy is uncommon French at frequency #90,752 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Possessif de la première personne du singulier ; provoque la mutation nasale.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fy, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fy, spelled F-Y.
Definition
- 1Possessif de la première personne du singulier ; provoque la mutation nasale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fy mhen. Fy nhad. Fy nhgathod.
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.