africaine
\a.fʁi.kɛn\
The verdict
“africaine” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,035. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,035
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de africain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-africaine · africaine · French
africaine · rank #4,035 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,035
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH africain
Nearest frequency peer: africain (-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 « africaine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- Alsace
Alsace
95,964 corpus weight
What this shows « africaine » 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 | africaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fʁi.kɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « africaine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around africaine (IPA \a.fʁi.kɛn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,035 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de africain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for africaine, with forms such as "affricaine", "afircaine", and "afrciaine". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "african", "africains", "américaine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is africaine, spelled A-F-R-I-C-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de africain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how africaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces artistes hip-hop circulant sur des routes reliant l’Europe à l’Afrique font exister dans les studios, les scènes et les morceaux de rap la communauté africaine ou afropéenne revendiquée, contribuant à la redéfinition et à la reproduction d’une diaspora noire unie par une histoire, des revendications et des sentiments d’appartenance communs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affricaine
- afircaine
- afrciaine
- afriacine
- africaien
- africainne
- africanie
- africcaine
- africiane
- afrricaine
- arficaine
- faricaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of africaine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).