enfants
\ɑ̃.fɑ̃\
The verdict
“enfants” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #243. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #243
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel d’enfant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfants · enfants · French
enfants · rank #243 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #243
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH avons
Nearest frequency peer: avons (-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 « enfants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aurait
aurait
99,760 corpus weight
- avons
avons
99,759 corpus weight
- enfants
enfants
99,758 corpus weight
- famille
famille
99,757 corpus weight
- parler
parler
99,756 corpus weight
- suite
suite
99,755 corpus weight
What this shows « enfants » 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 | enfants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enfants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around enfants (IPA \ɑ̃.fɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #243 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel d’enfant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for enfants, with forms such as "efnants", "enafnts", and "enfannts". 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, "errants", "entrants", "enfant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 enfants, spelled E-N-F-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel d’enfant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enfants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le problème avec Christine, ce sont ses enfants qui, loin de se contenter de lui avoir déformé le ventre à jamais, la suivent partout, tout le temps, meute pleurnicharde, gavée de sucreries et de gagatisme infantile.
Cheminant vers la rue Saint-Joseph, elle songe avec nostalgie à l’ancienne Suzanne, celle qui s’épivardait dans la rue avec ses enfants pendant les récréations et qui, parfois, grimpait au pommier en déchirant sa jupe…
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efnants
- enafnts
- enfannts
- enfanst
- enfantss
- enfantts
- enfatns
- enffants
- enfnats
- ennfants
- nefants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enfants - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).