franche
\fʁɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“franche” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,060. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,060
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de franc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-franche · franche · French
franche · rank #7,060 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,060
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondamentale
Nearest frequency peer: fondamentale (-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 « franche »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exécuter
exécuter
92,944 corpus weight
- foncé
foncé
92,943 corpus weight
- fondamentale
fondamentale
92,942 corpus weight
- franche
franche
92,941 corpus weight
- féministe
féministe
92,940 corpus weight
- fût
fût
92,939 corpus weight
What this shows « franche » 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 | franche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « franche »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around franche (IPA \fʁɑ̃ʃ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,060 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de franc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for franche, with forms such as "farnche", "ffranche", and "fracnhe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "franco", "francs", "French", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is franche, spelled F-R-A-N-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de franc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how franche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle n’hésite pas à y aborder des sujets tabous, comme les troubles alimentaires ou la sexualité, avec une franche dose d’autodérision, filant la métaphore de la loseuse.
— Mon ami, pourquoi me parlez-vous ainsi ? Je suis franche, moi. — Qu’appelez-vous être franche ? Vous savez qu’une femme est obligée de mentir. Elle hésita. Puis : — Une femme est franche quand elle ne fait pas de mensonges inutiles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farnche
- ffranche
- fracnhe
- francche
- franceh
- franchhe
- franhce
- frannche
- frnache
- frranche
- rfanche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of franche - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "franche", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).