farces
\faʁs\
The verdict
“farces” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,487. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,487
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de farce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-farces · farces · French
farces · rank #31,487 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,487
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH faf
Nearest frequency peer: faf (-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 « farces »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- examinées
examinées
68,517 corpus weight
- expliquerai
expliquerai
68,516 corpus weight
- faf
faf
68,515 corpus weight
- farces
farces
68,514 corpus weight
- fay
fay
68,513 corpus weight
- feint
feint
68,512 corpus weight
What this shows « farces » 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 | farces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \faʁs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « farces »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around farces (IPA \faʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,487 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de farce.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for farces, with forms such as "afrces", "facres", and "farcces". 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, "fare", "force", "Fries", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is farces, spelled F-A-R-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de farce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how farces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui, madame de Maufrigneuse restait un ange que les corruptions de la terre n’atteignaient pas : un ange aux Variétés devant ces farces à demi obscènes et populacières qui la faisaient rire, un ange au milieu du feu croisé des délicieuses plaisanteries et des chroniques scandaleuses qui se disaient aux parties fines, un ange pâmée au Vaudeville en loge gr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afrces
- facres
- farcces
- farcess
- farcse
- farecs
- farrces
- ffarces
- fraces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of farces - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "farces", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).