fakir
\fa.kiʁ\
The verdict
“fakir” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,266. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,266
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ascète soufi, derviche musulman qui court le pays en vivant d’aumônes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fakir · fakir · French
fakir · rank #40,266 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,266
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fabrications
Nearest frequency peer: fabrications (-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 « fakir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- extrapolati…
extrapolation
59,738 corpus weight
- exécutoire
exécutoire
59,737 corpus weight
- fabrications
fabrications
59,736 corpus weight
- fakir
fakir
59,735 corpus weight
- fallout
fallout
59,734 corpus weight
- falsifié
falsifié
59,733 corpus weight
What this shows « fakir » 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 | fakir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.kiʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fakir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fakir (IPA \fa.kiʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,266 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fakir, with forms such as "afkir", "faikr", and "fakirr". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "far", "fuir", "finir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fakir, spelled F-A-K-I-R.
Definition
- 1Ascète soufi, derviche musulman qui court le pays en vivant d’aumônes.
- 2Mystique hindou.
- 3Saltimbanque ou illusionniste pseudo-oriental, sans aucune référence ou différence religieuse, qui exécute des exercices physiques pénibles et des tours extraordinaires attribués à un pouvoir surnaturel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fakir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du fond de la ville, je vis l’automne qui rougissait les arbres et verdissait les pâturages, et le jour où le collège se rouvrit, j’y ramenai comme à l’ordinaire un être agité, malheureux, une sorte d’esprit plié en deux, comme un fakir attristé qui s’examine.
C'était un fakir, à demi nu, de la couleur du bronze, et dont la physionomie impassible semblait ne connaître ni la douleur ni le plaisir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afkir
- faikr
- fakirr
- fakkir
- fakri
- ffakir
- fkair
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fakir - 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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).