francophones
\fʁɑ̃.kɔ.fɔn\
The verdict
“francophones” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,942. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,942
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de francophone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-francophones · francophones · French
francophones · rank #4,942 · 19 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,942
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ford
Nearest frequency peer: ford (-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 « francophones »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- extraits
extraits
95,062 corpus weight
- figures
figures
95,061 corpus weight
- ford
ford
95,060 corpus weight
- francophones
francophones
95,059 corpus weight
- French
French
95,058 corpus weight
- garantir
garantir
95,057 corpus weight
What this shows « francophones » 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 | francophones |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃.kɔ.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #4,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « francophones »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around francophones (IPA \fʁɑ̃.kɔ.fɔn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,942 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de francophone.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for francophones, with forms such as "farncophones", "ffrancophones", and "fracnophones". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "francophonie", "francophone", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is francophones, spelled F-R-A-N-C-O-P-H-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de francophone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how francophones appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Flamands "déjoualisent" : en accédant au statut de "nation", au cours des années soixante, les Flamands, jadis dominés par les Wallons francophones, se sont rendus compte que le "flamand", cet ensemble de dialectes et de patois du néerlandais, bourré d’archaïsmes, de régionalismes, de gallicismes et de germanismes, ne pourrait leur servir de langue na…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farncophones
- ffrancophones
- fracnophones
- franccophones
- francohpones
- francophhones
- francophnoes
- francophoens
- francophoness
- francophonnes
- francophonse
- francopohnes
- francopphones
- francpohones
- franncophones
- franocphones
- frnacophones
- frrancophones
- rfancophones
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of francophones - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).