fayard
\fa.jaʁ\
The verdict
“fayard” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,566. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,566
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hêtre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fayard · fayard · French
fayard · rank #22,566 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,566
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FAQ
Nearest frequency peer: FAQ (-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 « fayard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- existerait
existerait
77,439 corpus weight
- FAQ
FAQ
77,436 corpus weight
- fayard
fayard
77,435 corpus weight
- ferrées
ferrées
77,434 corpus weight
- fictive
fictive
77,433 corpus weight
- financées
financées
77,432 corpus weight
What this shows « fayard » 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 | fayard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fayard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fayard (IPA \fa.jaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,566 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fayard, with forms such as "afyard", "faayrd", and "fayadr". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "fuyards", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fayard, spelled F-A-Y-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Hêtre.
- 2Bois de cet arbre.
- 3Meuble héraldique représentant un hêtre stylisé dans les armoiries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fayard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est la raison pour laquelle 30 participants prirent, vers 14 heures, les routes des forêts de Seillon et Certines, avec le secret espoir d'admirer les frondaisons d'automne, un peu tôt cependant pour la magie des bois aux bouleaux et acacias d'or, et des fayards rouges.
Ils s’arrêtaient pour contempler, dans l’ombre des branches basses d’un fayard, les couleurs qu’offrent au regard les cultures que le soleil éclaire différemment selon qu’elles se trouvent autour du village ou s’accrochent sur les pentes des collines.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afyard
- faayrd
- fayadr
- fayardd
- fayarrd
- fayrad
- fayyard
- ffayard
- fyaard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fayard - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fayard", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).