fardeau
\faʁ.do\
The verdict
“fardeau” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,004. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,004
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faix, charge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fardeau · fardeau · French
fardeau · rank #10,004 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,004
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 137,178
- PHOTO-FINISH faiblesses
Nearest frequency peer: faiblesses (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “fardeau”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- expriment
expriment
90,000 corpus weight
- facultés
facultés
89,999 corpus weight
- faiblesses
faiblesses
89,998 corpus weight
- fardeau
fardeau
89,997 corpus weight
- filières
filières
89,996 corpus weight
- finesse
finesse
89,995 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “fardeau” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | fardeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \faʁ.do\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fardeau” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fardeau (IPA \faʁ.do\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,004 among 137,178 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fardeau, with forms such as "afrdeau", "fadreau", and "fardaeu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "farfelu", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fardeau, spelled F-A-R-D-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Faix, charge.
- 2Terres et roches qui menacent d’ébouler.
- 3Soucis, peines ou douleurs qu’on a à supporter.
- 4Ensemble d’éléments, de panneaux ou d'emballages liés en vue de leur expédition, de leur stockage ou de la facilité de leur manutention. Souvent il s'agit d’une palette, d'une caisse-palette, parfois d’un conteneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fardeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'animal porte ainsi un coffre sur chaque flanc, et il faut avoir soin que le fardeau soit parfaitement équilibré, sans quoi l'on devra s'arrêter à chaque minute pour arranger la selle qui s'en va de travers avec les bagages.
Pris d’un zèle soudain, il redéposa son fardeau dans la camionnette, bondit à son volant, et dégagea le véhicule avec une telle brusquerie, qu’un conducteur, trop serré, freina brutalement, et l’agonit d'insultes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afrdeau
- fadreau
- fardaeu
- farddeau
- fardeua
- faredau
- farrdeau
- ffardeau
- fradeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fardeau - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fardeau", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.