focus
\fɔ.kys\
The verdict
“focus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,412. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,412
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concentré sur l’action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-focus · focus · French
focus · rank #11,412 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,412
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fleury
Nearest frequency peer: Fleury (-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 « focus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Fernando
Fernando
88,592 corpus weight
- fisc
fisc
88,591 corpus weight
- Fleury
Fleury
88,590 corpus weight
- focus
focus
88,589 corpus weight
- fournitures
fournitures
88,588 corpus weight
- félicité
félicité
88,587 corpus weight
What this shows « focus » 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 | focus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.kys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « focus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around focus (IPA \fɔ.kys\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,412 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Concentré sur l’action.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for focus, with forms such as "fcous", "ffocus", and "foccus". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fou", "fus", "Fos", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 focus, spelled F-O-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1Concentré sur l’action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how focus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Transformez-vous en patron d’écurie F1 de nouvelle génération : restez focus sur la vitesse de votre véhicule mais pas trop et « surveillez vos pneus » !
« Et les jeunes se côtoyaient et échangeaient dans la salle. Ils étaient focus sur le fait de gagner et de s’amuser » , s’est souvenu Tucker. À l’évidence, la gagne et le fun étaient depuis longtemps des indicateurs de la cohésion de l’équipe.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fcous
- ffocus
- foccus
- focsu
- focuss
- foucs
- ofcus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of focus - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).