friche
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,735
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
friche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Terrain inculte, soit qu’on ne l’ait jamais cultivé, soit que la culture en ait été interrompue. Pronounced \fʁiʃ\. Often confused with frise and frite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | friche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁiʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for friche is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁiʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,735 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for friche, with forms such as "ffriche", "firche", and "frcihe". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "frise", "frite", "frire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 friche, spelled F-R-I-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terrain inculte, soit qu’on ne l’ait jamais cultivé, soit que la culture en ait été interrompue.
- 2Ensemble des plantes qui poussent sur ce terrain.
- 3Terrain auparavant consacré à des activités qui ont cessé, sur lequel subsistent des bâtiments ou des ruines liés à ces activités passées, et qui n’a pas trouvé une nouvelle utilisation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffriche,firche,frcihe,fricche,friceh,frichhe,frihce,frriche,rfiche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "friche"
Frequency rank: #26,735 in French
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