fantasme

\fɑ̃.tasm\

/\fɑ̃.tasm\/ noun

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The verdict

“fantasme” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,323. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,323
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vision illusoire, produite par une lésion du sens optique ou par un trouble des facultés mentales.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fantasme · fantasme · French

fantasme · rank #10,323 · 12 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,323
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH extraordinair…

Nearest frequency peer: extraordinaires (-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 « fantasme »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « fantasme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

fantasme vs fantôme
75% similar
fantasme vs fantasy
75% similar
fantasme vs fantasmes
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fantasme
PropertyValue
Headwordfantasme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɑ̃.tasm\
Letters8
Frequency rank#10,323
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fantasme »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).fantasmese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « extraordinaires » (#10,322), « faso » (#10,324), « explosifs » (#10,321). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fantasme » est au #10,323. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around fantasme (IPA \fɑ̃.tasm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,323 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for fantasme, with forms such as "afntasme", "fanatsme", and "fanntasme". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "fantôme", "fantasy", "fantasmes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fantasme, spelled F-A-N-T-A-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vision illusoire, produite par une lésion du sens optique ou par un trouble des facultés mentales.
  2. 2
    Vision hallucinatoire.
  3. 3
    Construction imaginaire, consciente ou inconsciente, permettant au sujet qui s’y met en scène, d’exprimer et de satisfaire un désir plus ou moins refoulé, de surmonter une angoisse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fantasme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le fantasme se rétrécit et se met en place : ce n’était qu’une mouche près de mon œil.
  2. Le conflit est donc irrémédiable (dans la névrose) et irrésolvable entre un trop tôt et un trop tard : seul pourra l'apaiser un fantasme avec sa mise en drame...

Synonyms

hallucinationchimèrerêverie

This word in other languages

phantasm(English)ilusión(Español)fantasma(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afntasme
  • fanatsme
  • fanntasme
  • fantamse
  • fantasem
  • fantasmme
  • fantassme
  • fantsame
  • fanttasme
  • fatnasme
  • ffantasme
  • fnatasme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fantasme - 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.

afntasme2fanatsme2fanntasme1fantamse2fantasem2fantasmme1fantassme1fantsame2
Edit distance from "fantasme"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fantasme"?
"fantasme" is spelled F-A-N-T-A-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɑ̃.tasm\.
What does "fantasme" mean?
As a noun, "fantasme" means: Vision illusoire, produite par une lésion du sens optique ou par un trouble des facultés mentales.
What words are commonly confused with "fantasme"?
"fantasme" is commonly confused with "fantôme", "fantasy", "fantasmes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fantasme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fantasme" is \fɑ̃.tasm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fantasme" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fantasme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list