France
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#97
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
France is aFrenchname. It means: Pays d’Europe occidentale situé sur la côte atlantique, ayant des frontières terrestres avec la Belgique, le Luxembourg, l’Allemagne, la Suisse, l’Italie, Monaco, Andorre et l’Espagne, et des front... Pronounced \fʁɑ̃s\. It ranks #97 in French word frequency. Often confused with frank and Franz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | France |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for France is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #97 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for France, with forms such as "farnce", "ffrance", and "fracne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "frank", "Franz", "frêne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is France, spelled F-R-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Europe occidentale situé sur la côte atlantique, ayant des frontières terrestres avec la Belgique, le Luxembourg, l’Allemagne, la Suisse, l’Italie, Monaco, Andorre et l’Espagne, et des frontières maritimes avec la mer du Nord, la Manche, l’océan Atlantique et la mer Méditerranée, et qui a Paris pour capitale.
- 2Ce pays auquel s’ajoutent tout ou partie des territoires colonisés ou anciennement colonisés (selon le contexte).
- 3Territoire français autre que la France métropolitaine ou en faisant partie.
- 4État qui a pour nom officiel « République française ».
- 5Représentation, fraction de la France, de la nation française, de l’État français, de la communauté française…
- 6Hameau de Ayas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: farnce,ffrance,fracne,francce,franec,frannce,frnace,frrance,rfance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for France
Misspelling Variants of "France"
Frequency rank: #97 in French
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