favoris

\fa.vɔ.ʁi\

/\fa.vɔ.ʁi\/ noun

The verdict

“favoris” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,615. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,615
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Touffes de barbe que certains laissent croître de chaque côté du visage entre l’oreille et le menton.

Corpus desk

Index FR-favoris · favoris · French

favoris · rank #6,615 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,615
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH estomac

Nearest frequency peer: estomac (-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 « favoris »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « favoris » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

favoris vs favorise
88% similar
favoris vs favorite
75% similar
favoris vs favoriser
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for favoris
PropertyValue
Headwordfavoris
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.vɔ.ʁi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,615
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « favoris »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.favorisse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « estomac » (#6,614), « fiers » (#6,616), « envoyée » (#6,613). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « favoris » est au #6,615. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around favoris (IPA \fa.vɔ.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,615 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Touffes de barbe que certains laissent croître de chaque côté du visage entre l’oreille et le menton.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for favoris, with forms such as "afvoris", "faovris", and "favoirs". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "favorise", "favorite", "favoriser", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is favoris, spelled F-A-V-O-R-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Touffes de barbe que certains laissent croître de chaque côté du visage entre l’oreille et le menton.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how favoris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il y a un siècle à peine, en France, seuls étaient glabres les hommes d’Église et les domestiques. Barbes fluviales des socialistes et des anarchistes, favoris des libéraux et des maitres d’hôtel, impériale des bonapartistes, rouflaquettes des apaches, les visages affichaient les convictions politiques et les conditions sociales.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afvoris
  • faovris
  • favoirs
  • favoriss
  • favorris
  • favorsi
  • favrois
  • favvoris
  • ffavoris
  • fvaoris

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of favoris - 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.

afvoris2faovris2favoirs2favoriss1favorris1favorsi2favrois2favvoris1
Edit distance from "favoris"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "favoris"?
"favoris" is spelled F-A-V-O-R-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.vɔ.ʁi\.
What does "favoris" mean?
As a noun, "favoris" means: Touffes de barbe que certains laissent croître de chaque côté du visage entre l’oreille et le menton.
What words are commonly confused with "favoris"?
"favoris" is commonly confused with "favorise", "favorite", "favoriser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "favoris"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "favoris" is \fa.vɔ.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "favoris" come from?
"favoris" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "favoris", 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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list