forain
\fɔ.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“forain” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,770. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,770
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est pas du lieu, étranger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forain · forain · French
forain · rank #40,770 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,770
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foisonnement
Nearest frequency peer: foisonnement (-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 « forain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fleuries
fleuries
59,234 corpus weight
- flottait
flottait
59,233 corpus weight
- foisonnement
foisonnement
59,232 corpus weight
- forain
forain
59,231 corpus weight
- formèrent
formèrent
59,230 corpus weight
- foulon
foulon
59,229 corpus weight
What this shows « forain » 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 | forain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « forain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around forain (IPA \fɔ.ʁɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,770 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for forain, with forms such as "fforain", "foarin", and "forainn". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "frais", "frein", "fortin", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is forain, spelled F-O-R-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas du lieu, étranger.
- 2Extérieur, qualifie un lieu de mouillage en dehors d’un port.
- 3Relatif à une foire, qui accompagne ; qui fréquente les foires.
- 4Relatif aux marchands forains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how forain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le droit de faire la traite fut réservé aux domiciliés, à ceux qui avaient fait souche. … Cette décision marquait un premier écart envers la tutelle de la mère patrie. Elle peut être considérée comme le point de départ de la lutte épisodique, mais qui dura cent ans, entre les forains et les domiciliés.
Saisie foraine, saisie des effets mobiliers d’un débiteur de passage, étranger à la commune.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforain
- foarin
- forainn
- forani
- forian
- forrain
- froain
- ofrain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of forain - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).