Frexit
\fʁek.sit\
The verdict
“Frexit” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,451. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,451
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Scénario de sortie de la France de l’Union européenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frexit · Frexit · French
Frexit · rank #43,451 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,451
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Frau
Nearest frequency peer: Frau (-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 « Frexit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- formatage
formatage
56,553 corpus weight
- Frau
Frau
56,551 corpus weight
- Frexit
Frexit
56,550 corpus weight
- frottant
frottant
56,549 corpus weight
- fructose
fructose
56,548 corpus weight
- fuyards
fuyards
56,547 corpus weight
What this shows « Frexit » 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 | Frexit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁek.sit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Frexit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Frexit (IPA \fʁek.sit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,451 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Scénario de sortie de la France de l’Union européenne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Frexit, with forms such as "ferxit", "ffrexit", and "freixt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "frit", "fruit", "frein", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Frexit, spelled F-R-E-X-I-T.
Definition
- 1Scénario de sortie de la France de l’Union européenne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Frexit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas sûr, si l’on considère que les partisans d’un référendum sur le « Frexit » (rupture entre la France et l’UE) sont loin de vouloir quitter l’Union.,
Le scénario d’un « Frexit », une sortie de la France de l’euro et de l’Union européenne, apparaissait relativement improbable il y a encore quelques semaines.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ferxit
- ffrexit
- freixt
- frexitt
- frexti
- frexxit
- frrexit
- frxeit
- rfexit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Frexit - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).