folklore
\fɔl.klɔʁ\
The verdict
“folklore” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,955
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des arts et traditions populaires, d'un pays, d'une région, d'un groupe humain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-folklore · folklore · French
folklore · rank #17,955 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,955
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fluctuations
Nearest frequency peer: fluctuations (-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 « folklore »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- finiront
finiront
82,049 corpus weight
- flingue
flingue
82,048 corpus weight
- fluctuations
fluctuations
82,047 corpus weight
- folklore
folklore
82,046 corpus weight
- fondue
fondue
82,045 corpus weight
- formulée
formulée
82,044 corpus weight
What this shows « folklore » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folklore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔl.klɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « folklore »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around folklore (IPA \fɔl.klɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,955 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble des arts et traditions populaires, d'un pays, d'une région, d'un groupe humain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for folklore, with forms such as "ffolklore", "floklore", and "fokllore". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is folklore, spelled F-O-L-K-L-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des arts et traditions populaires, d'un pays, d'une région, d'un groupe humain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how folklore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il y a folkloristes et folkloristes. J'en ai vu de singuliers, quelques-uns d’effarants. On se fait un folklore à sa convenance. On attend des fées. On part à leur rencontre, le bâton de pèlerin à la main.
C’est avec un profond respect et une grande passion que Roccu Multedo nous fait connaître le folklore de son pays magique, bâti sur une foi et une tradition ancestrale toujours vivante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffolklore
- floklore
- fokllore
- folkklore
- folkllore
- folkloer
- folklorre
- folklroe
- folkolre
- follklore
- follkore
- oflklore
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of folklore - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).