fjord
\fjɔʁd\
The verdict
“fjord” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,411. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,411
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crique qui s’enfonce profondément dans la côte, en Scandinavie ou en Écosse, sur l’emplacement d’une ancienne vallée glaciaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fjord · fjord · French
fjord · rank #32,411 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,411
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finalisé
Nearest frequency peer: finalisé (-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 « fjord »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faucons
faucons
67,593 corpus weight
- ferreira
ferreira
67,592 corpus weight
- finalisé
finalisé
67,591 corpus weight
- fjord
fjord
67,590 corpus weight
- fumait
fumait
67,589 corpus weight
- furtif
furtif
67,588 corpus weight
What this shows « fjord » 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 | fjord |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fjɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fjord »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around fjord (IPA \fjɔʁd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,411 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Crique qui s’enfonce profondément dans la côte, en Scandinavie ou en Écosse, sur l’emplacement d’une ancienne vallée glaciaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fjord, with forms such as "ffjord", "fjjord", and "fjodr". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "for", "fort", "fond", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fjord, spelled F-J-O-R-D.
Definition
- 1Crique qui s’enfonce profondément dans la côte, en Scandinavie ou en Écosse, sur l’emplacement d’une ancienne vallée glaciaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fjord appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque fjord islandais a un petit chef-lieu où le steamer fait escale cinq ou six fois dans le cours d’une année. Dans ces localités résident des marchands […].
L’inlandsis du continent groenlandais se déversant lentement mais continuellement dans les fjords par des glaciers importants, vêle des icebergs de tailles variant à l’infini […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffjord
- fjjord
- fjodr
- fjordd
- fjorrd
- fjrod
- fojrd
- jford
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fjord - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).