forains
\fɔ.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“forains” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,952. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,952
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de forain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forains · forains · French
forains · rank #35,952 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,952
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foncées
Nearest frequency peer: foncées (-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 « forains »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flottantes
flottantes
64,052 corpus weight
- fluor
fluor
64,051 corpus weight
- foncées
foncées
64,050 corpus weight
- forains
forains
64,049 corpus weight
- foulards
foulards
64,048 corpus weight
- fracasser
fracasser
64,047 corpus weight
What this shows « forains » 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 | forains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « forains »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around forains (IPA \fɔ.ʁɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,952 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de forain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for forains, with forms such as "fforains", "foarins", and "forainns". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "frais", "Frans", "freins", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 forains, spelled F-O-R-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de forain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how forains appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À part les manèges, les tirs, les hideux bazars forains, exception faite pour les carrousels qui mettent le mal de mer à la portée des classes laborieuses, tandis que mugissent les orgues hydrauliques, maladie exécrable de l’oreille et que les suppôts du Roi de Thune pilonnent, avec l’assentiment du maigre Lépine, les électeurs agglomérés ; à part ces men…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforains
- foarins
- forainns
- forainss
- foraisn
- foranis
- forians
- forrains
- froains
- ofrains
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of forains - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).