african
\afɾiˈka\
The verdict
“african” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,746. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,746
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Africain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-african · african · French
african · rank #23,746 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,746
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH administrée
Nearest frequency peer: administrée (-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 « african »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accros
accros
76,258 corpus weight
- acquittement
acquittement
76,257 corpus weight
- administrée
administrée
76,256 corpus weight
- african
african
76,255 corpus weight
- against
against
76,254 corpus weight
- agrandit
agrandit
76,253 corpus weight
What this shows « african » 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 | african |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \afɾiˈka\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « african »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around african (IPA \afɾiˈka\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,746 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Africain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for african, with forms such as "affrican", "afircan", and "afrcian". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "American", "Adrian", "Africa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is african, spelled A-F-R-I-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Africain.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affrican
- afircan
- afrcian
- afriacn
- africann
- africcan
- africna
- afrrican
- arfican
- farican
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of african - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "african", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).