friands
\fʁi.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“friands” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,406. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,406
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de friand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-friands · friands · French
friands · rank #36,406 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,406
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frauder
Nearest frequency peer: frauder (-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 « friands »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- frappeur
frappeur
63,598 corpus weight
- frappez
frappez
63,597 corpus weight
- frauder
frauder
63,596 corpus weight
- friands
friands
63,595 corpus weight
- frontalières
frontalières
63,594 corpus weight
- fusiller
fusiller
63,592 corpus weight
What this shows « friands » 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 | friands |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁi.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « friands »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around friands (IPA \fʁi.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,406 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de friand.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for friands, with forms such as "ffriands", "firands", and "frainds". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "friend", "friends", "Frans", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 friands, spelled F-R-I-A-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de friand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how friands appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au milieu de tous ces gens qui forment queue à chacune des cases et que les garçons de recette se hâtent d’expédier, il y a bien des industriels sans industrie, qui viennent tâter le terrain et les poches du voisin pour reconnaitre si, par hasard, ils ne pourraient pas y trouver, sans malencontre, quelques-uns des fafiots garatés dont ils sont si friands.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffriands
- firands
- frainds
- friadns
- friandds
- friandss
- friannds
- friansd
- frinads
- frriands
- rfiands
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of friands - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "friands", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).