africain
\a.fʁi.kɛ̃\
The verdict
“africain” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,034. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,034
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’Afrique, ses peuples, ses langues et ses cultures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-africain · africain · French
africain · rank #4,034 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,034
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affronter
Nearest frequency peer: affronter (-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 « africain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accueille
accueille
95,970 corpus weight
- Adapter
Adapter
95,969 corpus weight
- affronter
affronter
95,968 corpus weight
- africain
africain
95,967 corpus weight
- africaine
africaine
95,966 corpus weight
- ailes
ailes
95,965 corpus weight
What this shows « africain » 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 | africain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fʁi.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « africain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around africain (IPA \a.fʁi.kɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,034 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à l’Afrique, ses peuples, ses langues et ses cultures.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for africain, with forms such as "affricain", "afircain", and "afrciain". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "african", "américain", "africains", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 africain, spelled A-F-R-I-C-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’Afrique, ses peuples, ses langues et ses cultures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how africain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des communications fréquentes, sinon continues, existaient à l’Éocène entre les contrées du Sud de l’Europe et le continent africain.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affricain
- afircain
- afrciain
- afriacin
- africainn
- africani
- africcain
- africian
- afrricain
- arficain
- faricain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of africain - 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 "africain", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).