Faulkner
The verdict
“Faulkner” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,936
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglophone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faulkner · Faulkner · French
Faulkner · rank #43,936 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,936
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH exterminés
Nearest frequency peer: exterminés (-2 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 « Faulkner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- expatrier
expatrier
56,068 corpus weight
- exterminés
exterminés
56,067 corpus weight
- Faulkner
Faulkner
56,065 corpus weight
- favela
favela
56,063 corpus weight
- February
February
56,062 corpus weight
- fermière
fermière
56,060 corpus weight
What this shows « Faulkner » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Faulkner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Faulkner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Faulkner, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,936 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille anglophone.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Faulkner, with forms such as "afulkner", "falukner", and "fauklner". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Faulkner, spelled F-A-U-L-K-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglophone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Faulkner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faulkner est un des meilleurs paroliers de l’histoire du rock.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afulkner
- falukner
- fauklner
- faulkenr
- faulkkner
- faulknerr
- faulknner
- faulknre
- faullkner
- faulnker
- ffaulkner
- fualkner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Faulkner - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).