\fɛjs.buk\
The verdict
“Facebook” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,163. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,163
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marque commerciale et site Web d’un réseau social.
Corpus desk
Index FR-facebook · Facebook · French
Facebook · rank #1,163 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,163
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH envoyer
Nearest frequency peer: envoyer (-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 « Facebook »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cool
cool
98,842 corpus weight
- eh
eh
98,841 corpus weight
- enquête
enquête
98,840 corpus weight
- envoyer
envoyer
98,839 corpus weight
- Facebook
Facebook
98,838 corpus weight
- ligue
ligue
98,835 corpus weight
What this shows « Facebook » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fɛjs.buk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Facebook »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Facebook (IPA \fɛjs.buk\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,163 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Marque commerciale et site Web d’un réseau social.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Facebook, with forms such as "afcebook", "facbeook", and "faccebook". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Facebook, spelled F-A-C-E-B-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1Marque commerciale et site Web d’un réseau social.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Facebook appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourquoi faire de la promotion régulière pour un réseau qui lève des milliards de dollars comme Facebook et pas pour un autre qui a du mal à se faire connaître?"
Après d’infinies souffrances, elle parvient à échapper à son bourreau. Elle refait sa vie dans une autre ville, très loin, avec son fils. Le danger est passé. Mais Facebook est là : son persécuteur la retrouve, simplement en lisant ses billets ou à travers une application qu’elle utilise occasionnellement, qui indique la position géographique de celui qui…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afcebook
- facbeook
- faccebook
- facebbook
- facebok
- faceboko
- facebookk
- faceobok
- faecbook
- fcaebook
- ffacebook
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Facebook - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Facebook", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).