favoris
\fa.vɔ.ʁi\
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
- emprunter
emprunter
93,389 corpus weight
- envoyée
envoyée
93,388 corpus weight
- estomac
estomac
93,387 corpus weight
- favoris
favoris
93,386 corpus weight
- fiers
fiers
93,385 corpus weight
- foyers
foyers
93,384 corpus weight
What this shows « favoris » 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 | favoris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.vɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « favoris »
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
- 1Touffes de barbe que certains laissent croître de chaque côté du visage entre l’oreille et le menton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how favoris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).