Africa
\ˈæf.ɹɪ.kə\
The verdict
“Africa” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,725. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,725
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Afrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-africa · Africa · French
Africa · rank #13,725 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,725
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affronte
Nearest frequency peer: affronte (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Africa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accomplisse…
accomplissement
86,279 corpus weight
- accueillent
accueillent
86,278 corpus weight
- affronte
affronte
86,277 corpus weight
- Africa
Africa
86,276 corpus weight
- alien
alien
86,275 corpus weight
- aliment
aliment
86,274 corpus weight
What this shows « Africa » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Africa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈæf.ɹɪ.kə\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Africa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Africa (IPA \ˈæf.ɹɪ.kə\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,725 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Afrique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Africa, with forms such as "affrica", "afirca", and "afrcia". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "aria", "arriva", "african", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Africa, spelled A-F-R-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Afrique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affrica
- afirca
- afrcia
- afriac
- africca
- afrrica
- arfica
- farica
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Africa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Africa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).