africains
\a.fʁi.kɛ̃\
The verdict
“africains” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,731
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de africain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-africains · africains · French
africains · rank #3,731 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,731
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acquisition
Nearest frequency peer: acquisition (-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 « africains »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- étonnant
étonnant
96,273 corpus weight
- 3e
3e
96,272 corpus weight
- acquisition
acquisition
96,271 corpus weight
- africains
africains
96,270 corpus weight
- agricoles
agricoles
96,269 corpus weight
- amateurs
amateurs
96,268 corpus weight
What this shows « africains » 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 | africains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.fʁi.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « africains »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around africains (IPA \a.fʁi.kɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,731 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de africain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for africains, with forms such as "affricains", "afircains", and "afrciains". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "african", "américains", "africain", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is africains, spelled A-F-R-I-C-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de africain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how africains appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les penseurs africains rejettent la tradition multiséculaire que professaient les auteurs eurocentriques considérant les « indigènes » comme des êtres inférieurs, pétulants, sauvages dans leurs émotions, incapables d’appréhender la culture.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affricains
- afircains
- afrciains
- afriacins
- africainns
- africainss
- africaisn
- africanis
- africcains
- africians
- afrricains
- arficains
- faricains
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of africains - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).