Darfour
\daʁ.fuʁ\
The verdict
“Darfour” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,972. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,972
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région de l’ouest du Soudan, dans le désert du Sahara.
Corpus desk
Index FR-darfour · Darfour · French
Darfour · rank #34,972 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,972
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH cyniques
Nearest frequency peer: cyniques (-2 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 « Darfour »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crunch
crunch
65,033 corpus weight
- créons
créons
65,032 corpus weight
- cyniques
cyniques
65,031 corpus weight
- Darfour
Darfour
65,029 corpus weight
- deg
deg
65,027 corpus weight
- det
det
65,025 corpus weight
What this shows « Darfour » 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 | Darfour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \daʁ.fuʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Darfour »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Darfour (IPA \daʁ.fuʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #34,972 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Région de l’ouest du Soudan, dans le désert du Sahara.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Darfour, with forms such as "adrfour", "dafrour", and "darffour". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Dufour", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Darfour, spelled D-A-R-F-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Région de l’ouest du Soudan, dans le désert du Sahara.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Darfour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ce qui t’explique mon amour pour les torrents, les gaves, toutes les folles rivières. Je ne conçois pas un pays sans que de l’eau y bouge et y gazouille : les Causses et le Darfour, pour moi, c’est tout un.
La zone sahélienne est peu peuplée. Entre Dakar et le Darfour, les habitants de ce « biome » ne dépassent pas vingt millions d'habitants, soit 2 % de tout le continent africain (un milliard d'habitants), et toute la population des zones de sahel ne représente pas une province du Nigeria.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adrfour
- dafrour
- darffour
- darforu
- darfourr
- darfuor
- darofur
- darrfour
- ddarfour
- drafour
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Darfour - 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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