Frau
\ˈfʁaʊ̯\
The verdict
“Frau” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,450. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,450
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme, être humain adulte de sexe féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frau · Frau · French
Frau · rank #43,450 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,450
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Frexit
Nearest frequency peer: Frexit (+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 « Frau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- foo
foo
56,554 corpus weight
- formatage
formatage
56,553 corpus weight
- Frau
Frau
56,551 corpus weight
- Frexit
Frexit
56,550 corpus weight
- frottant
frottant
56,549 corpus weight
- fructose
fructose
56,548 corpus weight
What this shows « Frau » 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 | Frau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfʁaʊ̯\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Frau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Frau (IPA \ˈfʁaʊ̯\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,450 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Frau, with forms such as "faru", "ffrau", and "frrau". 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, "fry", "FSU", "frs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Frau, spelled F-R-A-U.
Definition
- 1Femme, être humain adulte de sexe féminin.
- 2Épouse.
- 3Madame ; terme courtois pour une femme, qui a pratiquement remplacé Fräulein (« mademoiselle »), mot du genre neutre, qui est considéré péjoratif par les jeunes Allemandes.
- 4Dame.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Frau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich habe diese Frau nie zuvor gesehen.
Testosteron ist ein Hormon, das bei Männern und Frauen vorkommt, bei Männern aber in viel höherer Dosierung.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- faru
- ffrau
- frrau
- frua
- rfau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Frau - 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 "Frau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).