fracas
\fʁa.ka\
The verdict
“fracas” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,656. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,656
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit semblable à celui d’une chose qui se brise en éclats.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fracas · fracas · French
fracas · rank #25,656 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,656
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fortifiée
Nearest frequency peer: fortifiée (-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 « fracas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fleuriste
fleuriste
74,348 corpus weight
- forma
forma
74,347 corpus weight
- fortifiée
fortifiée
74,346 corpus weight
- fracas
fracas
74,345 corpus weight
- framboise
framboise
74,344 corpus weight
- Francesca
Francesca
74,343 corpus weight
What this shows « fracas » 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 | fracas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁa.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fracas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fracas (IPA \fʁa.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,656 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fracas, with forms such as "farcas", "ffracas", and "fraacs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "frais", "Frans", "francs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fracas, spelled F-R-A-C-A-S.
Definition
- 1Bruit semblable à celui d’une chose qui se brise en éclats.
- 2Tout ce qui se fait avec tumulte, avec désordre et grand bruit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fracas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rupture des glaces s'opérait avec un fracas extraordinaire, comparable parfois à des décharges d'artillerie.
Enfin l’arbre tomba avec un horrible fracas et s’ouvrit dans toute sa longueur, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farcas
- ffracas
- fraacs
- fracass
- fraccas
- fracsa
- frcaas
- frracas
- rfacas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fracas - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).