Française
\fʁɑ̃.sɛz\
The verdict
“Française” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #400. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #400
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Femme possédant la nationalité française.
Corpus desk
Index FR-francaise · Française · French
Française · rank #400 · 13 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #400
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 137,178
- PHOTO-FINISH choix
Nearest frequency peer: choix (-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 “Française”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- aide
aide
99,604 corpus weight
- belle
belle
99,603 corpus weight
- choix
choix
99,602 corpus weight
- Française
Française
99,601 corpus weight
- long
long
99,600 corpus weight
- minutes
minutes
99,599 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Française” 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 | Française |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃.sɛz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Française” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Française (IPA \fʁɑ̃.sɛz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #400 among 137,178 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme possédant la nationalité française.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Française, with forms such as "farnçaise", "ffrançaise", and "franaçise". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Francis", "françois", "Francine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Française, spelled F-R-A-N-Ç-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme possédant la nationalité française.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farnçaise
- ffrançaise
- franaçise
- francaise
- frannçaise
- françaies
- françaisse
- françasie
- françiase
- fraçnaise
- frnaçaise
- frrançaise
- rfançaise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Française - 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.
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 "Française", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 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.