farceur
\faʁ.sœʁ\
The verdict
“farceur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,161. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,161
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui joue des farces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-farceur · farceur · French
farceur · rank #46,161 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,161
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH farcis
Nearest frequency peer: farcis (+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 « farceur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exprimaient
exprimaient
53,843 corpus weight
- exécutants
exécutants
53,842 corpus weight
- farceur
farceur
53,840 corpus weight
- farcis
farcis
53,839 corpus weight
- faro
faro
53,838 corpus weight
- fausseté
fausseté
53,837 corpus weight
What this shows « farceur » 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 | farceur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \faʁ.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « farceur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around farceur (IPA \faʁ.sœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,161 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui joue des farces.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for farceur, with forms such as "afrceur", "facreur", and "farcceur". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "faveur", "forcer", "fureur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 farceur, spelled F-A-R-C-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui joue des farces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how farceur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me sentis berné par je ne sais quel destin farceur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afrceur
- facreur
- farcceur
- farceru
- farceurr
- farcuer
- farecur
- farrceur
- ffarceur
- fraceur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of farceur - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "farceur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).