freedom

/\ˈfriː.dəm\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#21,326

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

freedom is aFrenchnoun. It means: Liberté. Pronounced \ˈfriː.dəm\.

Key facts for freedom
PropertyValue
Headwordfreedom
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈfriː.dəm\
Letters7
Frequency rank#21,326
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of freedom in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for freedom is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈfriː.dəm\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,326 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Liberté.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for freedom, with forms such as "feredom", "ffreedom", and "fredeom". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is freedom, spelled F-R-E-E-D-O-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Liberté.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: feredom,ffreedom,fredeom,fredom,freeddom,freedmo,freedomm,freeodm,frreedom,rfeedom

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for freedom

Misspelling Variants of "freedom"

feredom7ffreedom8fredeom7fredom6freeddom8freedmo7freedomm8freeodm7
Misspelling Variants of "freedom"

Frequency rank: #21,326 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "freedom"?
"freedom" is spelled F-R-E-E-D-O-M. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈfriː.dəm\.
What does "freedom" mean?
As a noun, "freedom" means: Liberté.
What are common misspellings of "freedom"?
Common misspellings include "feredom", "ffreedom", "fredeom", "fredom", "freeddom". The correct spelling is "freedom".
How do you pronounce "freedom"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "freedom" is \ˈfriː.dəm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "freedom" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.