faucon
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,876
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
faucon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Rapace diurne falconiformes du genre Falco au sein de la famille des falconidés (les autres espèces du genre étant appelées crécerelles), caractérisées par leur taille moyenne à grande, leurs dents... Pronounced \fo.kɔ̃\. Often confused with flacon and flocon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faucon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.kɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faucon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fo.kɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,876 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for faucon, with forms such as "afucon", "facuon", and "fauccon". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "flacon", "flocon", "foulon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is faucon, spelled F-A-U-C-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rapace diurne falconiformes du genre Falco au sein de la famille des falconidés (les autres espèces du genre étant appelées crécerelles), caractérisées par leur taille moyenne à grande, leurs dents tomiales très marquées, la présence de bandes malaires ou "moustaches" chez plusieurs espèces (e.g. faucon lanier, faucon hobereau, etc.), leurs ailes pointues, souvent à longue queue, leur vue extrêmement perçante, et qu’on dressait autrefois pour la chasse.
- 2Partisan de la rigueur budgétaire, d’une politique dure ou encore de l’usage de la force en politique internationale.
- 3Petite bombarde.
- 4Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Contrairement à l’aigle, il est représenté de profil, les ailes repliées, debout sur ses pattes. S’il adopte une autre posture ou des attributs, il faut le préciser dans le blasonnement. À rapprocher de aiglat, aigle, aiglette, aiglon, émerillon, épervier, gerfaut et vautour.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afucon,facuon,fauccon,faucno,fauconn,fauocn,ffaucon,fuacon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for faucon
Misspelling Variants of "faucon"
Frequency rank: #16,876 in French
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