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
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne à son compte, travailleur indépendant, vendant ses services à un client, en particulier dans les métiers artistiques, journalistiques et informatiques.
| 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) |
Where “freelance” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around freelance (IPA \fʁi.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,867 among 137,178 “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.
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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Using “freelance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-R-E-E-L-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fʁi.lɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.