folies
\fɔ.li\
The verdict
“folies” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,382. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,382
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de folie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-folies · folies · French
folies · rank #15,382 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,382
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finalistes
Nearest frequency peer: finalistes (-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 « folies »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Fax
Fax
84,622 corpus weight
- FDP
FDP
84,621 corpus weight
- finalistes
finalistes
84,620 corpus weight
- folies
folies
84,619 corpus weight
- formalités
formalités
84,618 corpus weight
- fragment
fragment
84,617 corpus weight
What this shows « folies » 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 | folies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.li\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « folies »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around folies (IPA \fɔ.li\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,382 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de folie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for folies, with forms such as "ffolies", "floies", and "foiles". 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, "folle", "folio", "Fries", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is folies, spelled F-O-L-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de folie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how folies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous disons parfois toutes ces folies le soir avec mon oncle : il se déclare résolu à traverser la grande tasse, comme il dit dans sa joviale humeur ; c'est ainsi que nous passons le temps en songeant à vous.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffolies
- floies
- foiles
- foleis
- foliess
- folise
- follies
- oflies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of folies - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).