farfelues
\faʁ.fə.ly\
The verdict
“farfelues” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,333. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,333
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de l’adjectif farfelu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-farfelues · farfelues · French
farfelues · rank #42,333 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,333
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fatalisme
Nearest frequency peer: fatalisme (+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 « farfelues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- euphorique
euphorique
57,671 corpus weight
- expiation
expiation
57,670 corpus weight
- farfelues
farfelues
57,668 corpus weight
- fatalisme
fatalisme
57,667 corpus weight
- fauteurs
fauteurs
57,666 corpus weight
- Fenerbahçe
Fenerbahçe
57,665 corpus weight
What this shows « farfelues » 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 | farfelues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \faʁ.fə.ly\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « farfelues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around farfelues (IPA \faʁ.fə.ly\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,333 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de l’adjectif farfelu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for farfelues, with forms such as "afrfelues", "fafrelues", and "fareflues". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "farfelus", "farfelu", "farfelue", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is farfelues, spelled F-A-R-F-E-L-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de l’adjectif farfelu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how farfelues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son équipe, et notamment sa monteuse, jouée dans le film par Blanche Gardin, s’arrachant les cheveux face à ses idées parfois géniales, mais souvent farfelues, comme de faire venir le chanteur Sting pour la bande-son de sa nouvelle réalisation.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afrfelues
- fafrelues
- fareflues
- farfeleus
- farfellues
- farfeluess
- farfeluse
- farfeules
- farffelues
- farfleues
- farrfelues
- ffarfelues
- frafelues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of farfelues - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).