fiancée
\fi.jɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“fiancée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,706. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,706
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui s’est fiancée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fiancee · fiancée · French
fiancée · rank #10,706 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,706
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH extrémistes
Nearest frequency peer: extrémistes (-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 « fiancée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- excepté
excepté
89,298 corpus weight
- extrémistes
extrémistes
89,296 corpus weight
- fiancée
fiancée
89,295 corpus weight
- frappée
frappée
89,294 corpus weight
- freins
freins
89,293 corpus weight
- fréquents
fréquents
89,292 corpus weight
What this shows « fiancée » 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 | fiancée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.jɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fiancée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fiancée (IPA \fi.jɑ̃.se\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,706 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fiancée, with forms such as "faincée", "ffiancée", and "fiacnée". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "France", "foncée", "finance", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 fiancée, spelled F-I-A-N-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui s’est fiancée.
- 2Synonyme de lichénée fiancée (papillon).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fiancée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frustré de ne pas voir sa fiancée, coincée sur l’île de Man située en mer d’Irlande) à cause du coronavirus, Dale McLaughlan, habitant d’Ayrshire (Écosse), a fait le foufou.
Comme tout le monde le sait, une fiancée massaï se doit d’être conduite par les femmes de la famille de son mari jusqu’au lieu du mariage, en dehors du village.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- faincée
- ffiancée
- fiacnée
- fianccée
- fiancee
- fianceé
- fianncée
- fianéce
- finacée
- ifancée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fiancée - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fiancée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).