Andreas
The verdict
“Andreas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,614. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,614
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-andreas · Andreas · French
Andreas · rank #17,614 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,614
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ample
Nearest frequency peer: ample (-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 « Andreas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Agen
Agen
82,391 corpus weight
- Airbnb
Airbnb
82,390 corpus weight
- amicaux
amicaux
82,389 corpus weight
- ample
ample
82,388 corpus weight
- Andreas
Andreas
82,387 corpus weight
- Angelina
Angelina
82,386 corpus weight
What this shows « Andreas » 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 | Andreas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Andreas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Andreas, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,614 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Andreas, with forms such as "adnreas", "anddreas", and "anderas". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Andrew", "Andrée", "Andrei", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Andreas, spelled A-N-D-R-E-A-S.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Andreas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a battu dans un sprint à deux le Norvégien Andreas Leknessund, qui a pu se consoler en prenant le maillot rose du leadeur du classement général.
Le journaliste norvégien Andreas Selliaas, auteur de l’enquête, précise : « J’ai la preuve du mail d’une personne de la société Memmo proposant au club de Valerenga de fournir un texte que Fabrizio Romano s’engageait à publier sur ses réseaux sociaux en échange d’argent. Le but était de tenter de faire grimper la valeur marchande de joueurs que le cluub s…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adnreas
- anddreas
- anderas
- andraes
- andreass
- andresa
- andrreas
- anndreas
- anrdeas
- nadreas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Andreas - 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
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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).