fracasse
\fʁa.kas\
The verdict
“fracasse” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,951. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,951
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de fracasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fracasse · fracasse · French
fracasse · rank #43,951 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,951
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fouillis
Nearest frequency peer: fouillis (-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 « fracasse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- florales
florales
56,053 corpus weight
- fortress
fortress
56,052 corpus weight
- fouillis
fouillis
56,051 corpus weight
- fracasse
fracasse
56,050 corpus weight
- frondeur
frondeur
56,048 corpus weight
- frottis
frottis
56,047 corpus weight
What this shows « fracasse » 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 | fracasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁa.kas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fracasse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fracasse (IPA \fʁa.kas\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,951 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fracasse, with forms such as "farcasse", "ffracasse", and "fraacsse". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "fraisse", "Française", "fracasser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 fracasse, spelled F-R-A-C-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de fracasser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de fracasser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de fracasser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de fracasser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de fracasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fracasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Une femme qui fracasse des golgoths, c’est irréaliste », estime un lecteur dont le propos rappelle les réactions misogynes de certains gameurs lorsque Rockstar a révélé que GTA VI, permettrait d’incarner une femme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farcasse
- ffracasse
- fraacsse
- fracase
- fracases
- fraccasse
- fracsase
- frcaasse
- frracasse
- rfacasse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fracasse - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fracasse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).