franks
\fʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“franks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,099. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,099
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de frank.
Corpus desk
Index FR-franks · franks · French
franks · rank #49,099 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,099
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FPR
Nearest frequency peer: FPR (-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 « franks »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fourberie
fourberie
50,906 corpus weight
- fournissaie…
fournissaient
50,905 corpus weight
- FPR
FPR
50,903 corpus weight
- franks
franks
50,902 corpus weight
- Franquin
Franquin
50,901 corpus weight
- frontales
frontales
50,898 corpus weight
What this shows « franks » 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 | franks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « franks »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around franks (IPA \fʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,099 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de frank.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for franks, with forms such as "farnks", "ffranks", and "frakns". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Franz", "Frans", "fronts", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is franks, spelled F-R-A-N-K-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de frank.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farnks
- ffranks
- frakns
- frankks
- frankss
- frannks
- fransk
- frnaks
- frranks
- rfanks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of franks - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).