fan
\fan\
The verdict
“fan” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,716) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,716
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Admirateur, admiratrice enthousiaste d’une personne ou d’une chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fan · fan · French
fan · rank #2,716 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,716
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH experts
Nearest frequency peer: experts (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « fan »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- employé
employé
97,288 corpus weight
- ennemis
ennemis
97,287 corpus weight
- experts
experts
97,286 corpus weight
- fan
fan
97,285 corpus weight
- feuilles
feuilles
97,284 corpus weight
- go
go
97,283 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fan » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | fan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fan\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fan »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fan is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "FC", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fan\. Frequency #2,716 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Admirateur, admiratrice enthousiaste d’une personne ou d’une chose.".
fan has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "FC", "fo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fan, spelled F-A-N.
Definition
- 1Admirateur, admiratrice enthousiaste d’une personne ou d’une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, en ces temps particulièrement bruyants médiatiquement, de nombreux fans d’Arte y apprécient les silences et chuchotements, et l’absence d'émissions et de jingles criards.
Vous êtes un fan de Meg Ryan ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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