foraine
\fɔ.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“foraine” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,069. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,069
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entrepreneuse de spectacles et jeux divers sur les fêtes foraines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foraine · foraine · French
foraine · rank #27,069 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,069
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foncièrement
Nearest frequency peer: foncièrement (-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 « foraine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fioul
fioul
72,936 corpus weight
- foncièrement
foncièrement
72,933 corpus weight
- foraine
foraine
72,932 corpus weight
- found
found
72,931 corpus weight
- fourrière
fourrière
72,930 corpus weight
- Frederick
Frederick
72,929 corpus weight
What this shows « foraine » 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 | foraine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « foraine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around foraine (IPA \fɔ.ʁɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,069 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Entrepreneuse de spectacles et jeux divers sur les fêtes foraines.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for foraine, with forms such as "fforaine", "foarine", and "foraien". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "fraise", "fortin", "freine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is foraine, spelled F-O-R-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Entrepreneuse de spectacles et jeux divers sur les fêtes foraines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foraine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle avait l’air d’une foraine, l’apparence d’une saltimbanque de foire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforaine
- foarine
- foraien
- forainne
- foranie
- foriane
- forraine
- froaine
- ofraine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foraine - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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