Fiona
\fjɔ.na\
The verdict
“Fiona” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,141. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,141
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fiona · Fiona · French
Fiona · rank #20,141 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,141
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flatteur
Nearest frequency peer: flatteur (+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 « Fiona »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exergue
exergue
79,863 corpus weight
- farouche
farouche
79,862 corpus weight
- Fiona
Fiona
79,860 corpus weight
- flatteur
flatteur
79,859 corpus weight
- floue
floue
79,858 corpus weight
- flyers
flyers
79,857 corpus weight
What this shows « Fiona » 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 | Fiona |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fjɔ.na\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Fiona »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Fiona (IPA \fjɔ.na\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,141 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Fiona, with forms such as "ffiona", "finoa", and "fioan". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fon", "font", "fond", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Fiona, spelled F-I-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fiona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fiona Gélin.
Les candidats sont plus à l’aise avec le dispositif télévisuel, ils sont mieux préparés, expliquait, il y a deux ans, Fiona Bélier, directrice générale de La Fabrique des formats, organisme qui réalise des veilles sur les tendances de programme.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffiona
- finoa
- fioan
- fionna
- foina
- ifona
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Fiona - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).