fiançailles
\fi.jɑ̃.sɑj\
The verdict
“fiançailles” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,879. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,879
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Engagement de se marier que prennent deux personnes, généralement en présence de témoins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fiancailles · fiançailles · French
fiançailles · rank #15,879 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,879
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fauve
Nearest frequency peer: fauve (-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 « fiançailles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faure
faure
84,124 corpus weight
- fauve
fauve
84,123 corpus weight
- fiançailles
fiançailles
84,122 corpus weight
- flexible
flexible
84,120 corpus weight
- flots
flots
84,119 corpus weight
- fractures
fractures
84,118 corpus weight
What this shows « fiançailles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fiançailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.jɑ̃.sɑj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fiançailles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around fiançailles (IPA \fi.jɑ̃.sɑj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,879 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for fiançailles, with forms such as "fainçailles", "ffiançailles", and "fianaçilles". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fiançailles, spelled F-I-A-N-Ç-A-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Engagement de se marier que prennent deux personnes, généralement en présence de témoins.
- 2Période qui s’écoule entre cet engagement et la cérémonie du mariage.
- 3Moment particulièrement agréable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fiançailles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire part des fiançailles.
Hier soir, Valéry arborait à son doigt un solitaire aux facettes scintillantes. Sa bague de fiançailles.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fainçailles
- ffiançailles
- fianaçilles
- fiancailles
- fiannçailles
- fiançailels
- fiançailes
- fiançailless
- fiançaillse
- fiançaliles
- fiançialles
- fiaçnailles
- finaçailles
- ifançailles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fiançailles - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).