fabriquer
\fa.bʁi.ke\
The verdict
“fabriquer” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,085. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,085
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Exécuter ou faire exécuter certains ouvrages suivant les procédés d’un art mécanique, en atelier ou en usine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fabriquer · fabriquer · French
fabriquer · rank #6,085 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,085
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fabricant
Nearest frequency peer: fabricant (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “fabriquer”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- exploration
exploration
93,919 corpus weight
- expressions
expressions
93,918 corpus weight
- fabricant
fabricant
93,917 corpus weight
- fabriquer
fabriquer
93,916 corpus weight
- faciles
faciles
93,915 corpus weight
- faille
faille
93,914 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “fabriquer” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | fabriquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fa.bʁi.ke\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fabriquer” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around fabriquer (IPA \fa.bʁi.ke\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,085 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for fabriquer, with forms such as "afbriquer", "fabbriquer", and "fabirquer". 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, "fabriqués", "fabrique", "fabriquée", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fabriquer, spelled F-A-B-R-I-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Exécuter ou faire exécuter certains ouvrages suivant les procédés d’un art mécanique, en atelier ou en usine.
- 2Transformer manuellement des matières premières en objets utilisables.
- 3Inventer
- 4Ficher, foutre, faire, dans un sens moins emporté et plus poli.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fabriquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Arles, l'archevêque, qui avait le monopole de l'exploitation de la graine d'écarlate, avec laquelle on fabriquait le teinture rouge, ne traitait, pour la vente de ses récoltes, qu'avec les juifs.
Banassac, qui avait fabriqué des poteries sous les Romains, frappa alors des monnaies et ce village peut « revendiquer la dixième partie des monnaies mérovingiennes éparses dans tous les cabinets du monde ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afbriquer
- fabbriquer
- fabirquer
- fabriqeur
- fabriqquer
- fabriquerr
- fabriqure
- fabriuqer
- fabrqiuer
- fabrriquer
- farbiquer
- fbariquer
- ffabriquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fabriquer - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fabriquer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.