fraîches
\fʁɛʃ\
The verdict
“fraîches” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,391
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de frais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fraiches · fraîches · French
fraîches · rank #13,391 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,391
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 137,178
- PHOTO-FINISH fraudes
Nearest frequency peer: fraudes (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “fraîches”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- foin
foin
86,613 corpus weight
- forge
forge
86,612 corpus weight
- fraudes
fraudes
86,611 corpus weight
- fraîches
fraîches
86,610 corpus weight
- fédérations
fédérations
86,608 corpus weight
- gelée
gelée
86,607 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “fraîches” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | fraîches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fraîches” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around fraîches (IPA \fʁɛʃ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,391 among 137,178 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de frais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for fraîches, with forms such as "farîches", "ffraîches", and "fracîhes". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "friche", "franche", "fraises", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 fraîches, spelled F-R-A-Î-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de frais.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farîches
- ffraîches
- fracîhes
- fraiches
- fraîcches
- fraîcehs
- fraîchess
- fraîchhes
- fraîchse
- fraîhces
- frraîches
- frîaches
- rfaîches
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fraîches - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fraîches", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.