Fax
\faks\
The verdict
“Fax” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,379) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,379
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Télécopieur, téléfax, fax, appareil permettant la numérisation, la transmission, la réception, et l’impression du facsimilé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fax · Fax · French
Fax · rank #15,379 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,379
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH factions
Nearest frequency peer: factions (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “Fax”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- excel
excel
84,625 corpus weight
- exotique
exotique
84,624 corpus weight
- factions
factions
84,623 corpus weight
- Fax
Fax
84,622 corpus weight
- FDP
FDP
84,621 corpus weight
- finalistes
finalistes
84,620 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Fax” against nearest ranked French headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | Fax |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \faks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Fax” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Fax is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "FC", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \faks\. Frequency #15,379 among 3,276 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for Fax in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "FC", "fo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Fax, spelled F-A-X.
Definition
- 1Télécopieur, téléfax, fax, appareil permettant la numérisation, la transmission, la réception, et l’impression du facsimilé.
- 2Document télécopié, transmis par liaison téléphonique, puis imprimé par le matériel de réception.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fax appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unser Fax war ausgeschaltet.
Wir haben ein Fax von unserem Kunden erhalten.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).