freak
\fʁik\
The verdict
“freak” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,793. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,793
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne particulièrement vigoureuse, monstre, phénomène de foire, curiosité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-freak · freak · French
freak · rank #41,793 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,793
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH franciscain
Nearest frequency peer: franciscain (-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 « freak »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- filant
filant
58,211 corpus weight
- flottement
flottement
58,210 corpus weight
- franciscain
franciscain
58,209 corpus weight
- freak
freak
58,208 corpus weight
- frottent
frottent
58,207 corpus weight
- fusionnent
fusionnent
58,206 corpus weight
What this shows « freak » 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 | freak |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « freak »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around freak (IPA \fʁik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,793 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for freak, with forms such as "ferak", "ffreak", and "fraek". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "free", "fred", "frère", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 freak, spelled F-R-E-A-K.
Definition
- 1Personne particulièrement vigoureuse, monstre, phénomène de foire, curiosité.
- 2Personne bizarre, étrange.
- 3Marginal, drogué.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how freak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est vrai que le freak remet en question l’uniformité de la société et que le qualificatif d’abord préjudiciable devient un titre honorifique pour certains marginaux inspirés des surréalistes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ferak
- ffreak
- fraek
- freakk
- freka
- frreak
- rfeak
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of freak - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).