franchir
\fʁɑ̃.ʃiʁ\
The verdict
“franchir” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,508. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,508
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passer au-delà d’un obstacle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-franchir · franchir · French
franchir · rank #6,508 · 13 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,508
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fournisseurs
Nearest frequency peer: fournisseurs (-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 « franchir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ferroviaire
ferroviaire
93,496 corpus weight
- Floride
Floride
93,495 corpus weight
- fournisseurs
fournisseurs
93,494 corpus weight
- franchir
franchir
93,493 corpus weight
- Gilbert
Gilbert
93,492 corpus weight
- He
He
93,491 corpus weight
What this shows « franchir » 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 | franchir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃.ʃiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « franchir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around franchir (IPA \fʁɑ̃.ʃiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,508 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for franchir, with forms such as "farnchir", "ffranchir", and "fracnhir". 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", "Francia", "françois", 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is franchir, spelled F-R-A-N-C-H-I-R.
Definition
- 1Passer au-delà d’un obstacle.
- 2Passer au-delà d’une limite.
- 3Passer par-dessus un obstacle sans y rester échoué.
- 4Passer, traverser des lieux, des endroits difficiles, de grands espaces, des frontières, etc.
- 5N’être retenu par des considérations d’aucune sorte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how franchir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les prairies, émaillées de saxifrages, sont clôturées de murs en pierres sèches qu’il nous faut franchir à tout instant.
Le jeune homme se dirigea donc vers le parc de Valfeuillu, distant de quelques pas seulement, et, peu soucieux de l'article 394 du Code pénal, il franchit le large fossé qui entoure la propriété de M. de Trémorel.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farnchir
- ffranchir
- fracnhir
- francchir
- franchhir
- franchirr
- franchri
- francihr
- franhcir
- frannchir
- frnachir
- frranchir
- rfanchir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of franchir - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).