freelance
\fʁi.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“freelance” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,867. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,867
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne à son compte, travailleur indépendant, vendant ses services à un client, en particulier dans les métiers artistiques, journalistiques et informatiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-freelance · freelance · French
freelance · rank #22,867 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,867
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH franches
Nearest frequency peer: franches (-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 « freelance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fonctionnera
fonctionnera
77,137 corpus weight
- formait
formait
77,136 corpus weight
- franches
franches
77,135 corpus weight
- freelance
freelance
77,134 corpus weight
- Friedrich
Friedrich
77,133 corpus weight
- fugue
fugue
77,132 corpus weight
What this shows « freelance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | freelance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁi.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « freelance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around freelance (IPA \fʁi.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,867 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne à son compte, travailleur indépendant, vendant ses services à un client, en particulier dans les métiers artistiques, journalistiques et informatiques.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for freelance, with forms such as "ferelance", "ffreelance", and "freealnce". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 freelance, spelled F-R-E-E-L-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Personne à son compte, travailleur indépendant, vendant ses services à un client, en particulier dans les métiers artistiques, journalistiques et informatiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how freelance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est généralement admis que pour vivre de son métier, un freelance se doit de facturer trois ou quatre fois le taux horaire qu'il prendrait s'il travaillait en permanence sur des projets. En effet, la difficulté pour un freelance est de gérer les longs intermèdes entre deux missions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ferelance
- ffreelance
- freealnce
- freelacne
- freelancce
- freelanec
- freelannce
- freellance
- freelnace
- frelance
- freleance
- frreelance
- rfeelance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of freelance - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).