africaines
\a.fʁi.kɛn\
The verdict
“africaines” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,326. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,326
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de africain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-africaines · africaines · French
africaines · rank #8,326 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,326
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aidera
Nearest frequency peer: aidera (+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 « africaines »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- yo
yo
91,678 corpus weight
- éclair
éclair
91,677 corpus weight
- africaines
africaines
91,675 corpus weight
- aidera
aidera
91,674 corpus weight
- allocation
allocation
91,673 corpus weight
- allumer
allumer
91,672 corpus weight
What this shows « africaines » 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 | africaines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fʁi.kɛn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « africaines »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around africaines (IPA \a.fʁi.kɛn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,326 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de africain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for africaines, with forms such as "affricaines", "afircaines", and "afrciaines". 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, "africains", "Américaines", "africain", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is africaines, spelled A-F-R-I-C-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de africain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how africaines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on parle du Vaudou comme culte syncrétique, on évoque généralement un assemblage d’éléments du catholicisme mal compris, et d’éléments de religions africaines qui persisteraient ici et là dans les campagnes haïtiennes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affricaines
- afircaines
- afrciaines
- afriacines
- africaiens
- africainess
- africainnes
- africainse
- africanies
- africcaines
- africianes
- afrricaines
- arficaines
- faricaines
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of africaines - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).