friendly
\fʁi.jɑ̃.li\
The verdict
“friendly” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,736
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amical, bienveillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-friendly · friendly · French
friendly · rank #26,736 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,736
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH friche
Nearest frequency peer: friche (-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 « friendly »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- frappées
frappées
73,268 corpus weight
- fratrie
fratrie
73,267 corpus weight
- friche
friche
73,266 corpus weight
- friendly
friendly
73,265 corpus weight
- fronton
fronton
73,264 corpus weight
- frustrations
frustrations
73,263 corpus weight
What this shows « friendly » 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 | friendly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁi.jɑ̃.li\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « friendly »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around friendly (IPA \fʁi.jɑ̃.li\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,736 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for friendly, with forms such as "ffriendly", "firendly", and "freindly". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "friends", "friend", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is friendly, spelled F-R-I-E-N-D-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Amical, bienveillant.
- 2Bienveillant vis-à-vis du public ou de la communauté LGBT
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how friendly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vallée, dit-il, est pleine de serpents, d’ours, d’Indiens, mais les Indiens sont friendly, des amis, et les serpents et les ours ne vous feront aucun mal à moins que vous ne les attaquiez.
C'était l’État le plus grand, le plus potentiellement riche, le plus dynamique, le plus jeune, et surtout le plus friendly de toute la nation américaine. Tout était friendly, de ce côté-ci du Rio Grande : les gens, les villes, les patrons, les employés, les parents, les enfants, les jeunes, les vieux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffriendly
- firendly
- freindly
- friednly
- frienddly
- friendlly
- friendlyy
- friendyl
- frienldy
- frienndly
- frinedly
- frriendly
- rfiendly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of friendly - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).