famine
\fa.min\
The verdict
“famine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,500. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,500
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indisponibilité générale des aliments les plus essentiels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-famine · famine · French
famine · rank #10,500 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,500
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferry
Nearest frequency peer: ferry (+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 « famine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enquêteurs
enquêteurs
89,504 corpus weight
- enregistrées
enregistrées
89,503 corpus weight
- famine
famine
89,501 corpus weight
- ferry
ferry
89,500 corpus weight
- fléau
fléau
89,499 corpus weight
- folles
folles
89,498 corpus weight
What this shows « famine » 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 | famine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.min\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « famine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around famine (IPA \fa.min\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,500 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for famine, with forms such as "afmine", "faimne", and "famien". 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 also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "fine", "faune", "farine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is famine, spelled F-A-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Indisponibilité générale des aliments les plus essentiels.
- 2Situation où certains fils d’exécution ne peuvent jamais accéder à une ressource à cause d’une exclusion mutuelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how famine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cité de Carcassonne était, à la fin du XIIIᵉ siècle […] une place imprenable qu’on ne pouvait réduire que par la famine, et encore eût-il fallu, pour la bloquer, une armée nombreuse.
Au milieu de la lutte contre le chaos, dans le sillage de la famine, survint un autre vieil ennemi de l’humanité : la peste, la Mort Pourpre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afmine
- faimne
- famien
- faminne
- fammine
- famnie
- ffamine
- fmaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of famine - 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 "famine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).