Franc
\fʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“Franc” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,878. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,878
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre du peuple des Francs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-franc · Franc · French
Franc · rank #2,878 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,878
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH essais
Nearest frequency peer: essais (-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 « Franc »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- détruit
détruit
97,126 corpus weight
- Eric
Eric
97,125 corpus weight
- essais
essais
97,124 corpus weight
- Franc
Franc
97,123 corpus weight
- fuite
fuite
97,122 corpus weight
- gamme
gamme
97,121 corpus weight
What this shows « Franc » 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 | Franc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Franc »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Franc (IPA \fʁɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,878 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Membre du peuple des Francs.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Franc, with forms such as "farnc", "ffranc", and "fracn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fric", "froc", "Frau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists 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 Franc, spelled F-R-A-N-C.
Definition
- 1Membre du peuple des Francs.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farnc
- ffranc
- fracn
- francc
- frannc
- frnac
- frranc
- rfanc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Franc - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).