Français (French)
A free French word reference: definitions, IPA pronunciation, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections from the open Wiktionary corpus.
French at a glance
PlainSpell indexes 4,485,239 French words with 440,172 confusable pairs and 21,890 homophone groups; more French words begin with “R” than any other letter, and “après vs autres” is the pair most likely to be confused.
- 4,485,239
- French words
- 440,172
- confusable pairs
- 21,890
- homophone groups
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 2026). Definitions, IPA pronunciation, etymology and spelling corrections, free.
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Which letters start the most French words?
Most common initial letters in French
Top 10 letters, ranked by how many indexed words begin with each
- R
R
507,453 words
- A
A
424,905 words
- D
D
404,891 words
- S
S
394,209 words
- C
C
257,141 words
- P
P
248,534 words
- B
B
227,490 words
- M 202,672
M
202,672 words
- E 201,161
E
201,161 words
- G 194,371
G
194,371 words
How long are French words?
French word lengths
80,263 words by word length (letters); the ranking above is drawn from the right-hand tail
word length (letters) →
What this showsFrench vocabulary clusters around the middle lengths; the very short and very long words are a small minority of the indexed corpus.
Mots les plus fréquents
Paires souvent confondues
- 1aprèsvsautres
- 2avaitvsavoir
- 3encorevsentre
- 4avaitvsavant
- 5ainsivsaussi
- 6commevscompte
- 7étaientvsétait
- 8parcevsParis
- 9parcevspartie
- 10cellevscette
Top 5 paires souvent confondues, en un coup d’œil
Classées par fréquence composite × similarité visuelle. Plus la barre est haute, plus la substitution réelle est probable.
Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) French confusables export · Q2 2026 Confusable scores combine word-frequency rank and Damerau–Levenshtein similarity.
Explore French
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- Look up any French word for its definition, IPA pronunciation, etymology and misspellings. Browse French A–Z
- Settle a confusable pair, which spelling means what, compared side by side. Confusable pairs
- See the cross-language rankings: hardest to spell, most confusable, largest homophone groups. Rankings
Source & data vintage
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) French headword + definitions corpus · Q2 2026 Aggregated and indexed via kaikki.org dictionary export. Confusable pairs are computed; homophone groups are derived from IPA matches.
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