Ferrand
\fɛ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“Ferrand” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,832
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferrand · Ferrand · French
Ferrand · rank #9,832 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,832
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feras
Nearest frequency peer: feras (-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 « Ferrand »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exclusivité
exclusivité
90,172 corpus weight
- expérimenta…
expérimentation
90,171 corpus weight
- feras
feras
90,170 corpus weight
- Ferrand
Ferrand
90,169 corpus weight
- fief
fief
90,168 corpus weight
- fixés
fixés
90,167 corpus weight
What this shows « Ferrand » 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 | Ferrand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ferrand »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Ferrand (IPA \fɛ.ʁɑ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,832 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ferrand, with forms such as "efrrand", "ferand", and "ferarnd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "friand", "Ferrari", "ferrare", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Ferrand, spelled F-E-R-R-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ferrand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et c’est comme ça que Fesneau s’est retrouvé aux côtés de Bayrou pour négocier face à Richard Ferrand les circonscriptions concédées au MoDem.
Puisque vous serez probablement en train de roupiller pendant que Franck Ferrand lira ses notes, 20 Minutes vous propose trois sites immanquables du tracé de cette année, sous le contrôle d’Alain Cassaigne, auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur le patrimoine hexagonal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efrrand
- ferand
- ferarnd
- ferradn
- ferrandd
- ferrannd
- ferrnad
- fferrand
- frerand
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ferrand - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).