frappes
\fʁap\
The verdict
“frappes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,663. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,663
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de frappe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frappes · frappes · French
frappes · rank #9,663 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,663
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fm
Nearest frequency peer: fm (-2 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 « frappes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fermement
fermement
90,342 corpus weight
- fermées
fermées
90,341 corpus weight
- fm
fm
90,340 corpus weight
- frappes
frappes
90,338 corpus weight
- fusée
fusée
90,336 corpus weight
- Gabon
Gabon
90,335 corpus weight
What this shows « frappes » 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 | frappes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁap\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « frappes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around frappes (IPA \fʁap\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,663 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de frappe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for frappes, with forms such as "farppes", "ffrappes", and "frapeps". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "fraudes", "frappez", "frappeur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is frappes, spelled F-R-A-P-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de frappe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frappes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La finesse de coup franc de Lionel Messi à la demi-heure de jeu face à Nice, samedi, a rappelé aux plus anciens les frappes tout en finesse de Maradona, Platini, Zico ; par opposition aux canonniers modernes que sont Juninho et Cristiano Ronaldo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farppes
- ffrappes
- frapeps
- frapes
- frappess
- frappse
- frpapes
- frrappes
- rfappes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of frappes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "frappes", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).