facho
\fa.ʃo\
The verdict
“facho” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,621. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,621
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sympathisant de doctrines fascistes ou assimilées au fascisme par ceux qui emploient le mot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-facho · facho · French
facho · rank #21,621 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,621
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fables
Nearest frequency peer: fables (-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 « facho »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exigeante
exigeante
78,383 corpus weight
- exposants
exposants
78,382 corpus weight
- fables
fables
78,381 corpus weight
- facho
facho
78,380 corpus weight
- FAO
FAO
78,379 corpus weight
- fascine
fascine
78,378 corpus weight
What this shows « facho » 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 | facho |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.ʃo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « facho »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around facho (IPA \fa.ʃo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,621 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sympathisant de doctrines fascistes ou assimilées au fascisme par ceux qui emploient le mot.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for facho, with forms such as "afcho", "faccho", and "fachho". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FAO", "faso", "fact", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is facho, spelled F-A-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1Sympathisant de doctrines fascistes ou assimilées au fascisme par ceux qui emploient le mot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how facho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a un certain âge, des idées complètement rétro — un vrai facho, quoi. J’ai même quelquefois l’impression qu’il n’est pas dénazifié à cent pour cent.
Il faut que j’interrompe Manglano une seconde : « fachos » n’est pas un anachronisme, c’est une traduction. En espagnol, on dit fachas pour fascistes depuis la guerre civile de 1936. Manglano m’avait dit dans notre langue : « Y el enemigo, ¡ coño, ya se sabe : los fachas ! » « Fachos », donc, pour fachas : une traduction plausible et personnelle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afcho
- faccho
- fachho
- facoh
- fahco
- fcaho
- ffacho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of facho - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).