frédéric
\fʁe.de.ʁik\
The verdict
“frédéric” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,404. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,404
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monnaie d’or de Prusse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frederic · frédéric · French
frédéric · rank #3,404 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,404
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fout
Nearest frequency peer: fout (-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 « frédéric »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déchets
déchets
96,601 corpus weight
- dépasse
dépasse
96,600 corpus weight
- engage
engage
96,599 corpus weight
- fout
fout
96,598 corpus weight
- frédéric
frédéric
96,597 corpus weight
- intermédiai…
intermédiaire
96,595 corpus weight
What this shows « frédéric » 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 | frédéric |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁe.de.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « frédéric »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around frédéric (IPA \fʁe.de.ʁik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,404 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Monnaie d’or de Prusse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for frédéric, with forms such as "ffrédéric", "frdééric", and "frederic". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Frederik", "Frederick", "Frédérique", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 frédéric, spelled F-R-É-D-É-R-I-C.
Definition
- 1Monnaie d’or de Prusse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frédéric appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« — Vous êtes de braves gens, oubliez un instant de colère ; l’esprit est fort, mais la chair est faible. Permettez-moi de vous témoigner ma reconnaissance. » Il voulut remettre un frédéric d’or à ma mère, mais elle refusa et répondit : « — C’est au nom de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ que nous vous avons assisté dans le malheur, Monsieur le curé. »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffrédéric
- frdééric
- frederic
- frrédéric
- fréddéric
- frédréic
- frédéirc
- frédérci
- frédéricc
- frédérric
- fréédric
- férdéric
- rfédéric
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of frédéric - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).