farce
\faʁs\
The verdict
“farce” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,968. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,968
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hachis d’ingrédients épicés que l’on introduit dans le ventre vidé de ses entrailles de l’animal destiné à être cuit entier, ou dans un organe creux d’un animal, dans les pâtés, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-farce · farce · French
farce · rank #11,968 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,968
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fai
Nearest frequency peer: fai (-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 « farce »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- expliquait
expliquait
88,036 corpus weight
- fai
fai
88,034 corpus weight
- farce
farce
88,033 corpus weight
- feat
feat
88,032 corpus weight
- fermier
fermier
88,031 corpus weight
- gagnes
gagnes
88,030 corpus weight
What this shows « farce » 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 | farce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \faʁs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « farce »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around farce (IPA \faʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,968 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hachis d’ingrédients épicés que l’on introduit dans le ventre vidé de ses entrailles de l’animal destiné à être cuit entier, ou dans un organe creux d’un animal, dans les pâtés, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for farce, with forms such as "afrce", "facre", and "farcce". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "free", "fire", "farm", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is farce, spelled F-A-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1Hachis d’ingrédients épicés que l’on introduit dans le ventre vidé de ses entrailles de l’animal destiné à être cuit entier, ou dans un organe creux d’un animal, dans les pâtés, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how farce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bourrer une dinde de farce et de marrons.
En effet, beaucoup d'entre nous l'avons remarqué, le meilleur dans l'escargot à la bourguignonne, c'est sa merveilleuse farce aillée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afrce
- facre
- farcce
- farec
- farrce
- ffarce
- frace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of farce - 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).