friends
\fɹɛndz\
The verdict
“friends” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,679. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,679
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de friend.
Corpus desk
Index FR-friends · friends · French
friends · rank #14,679 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,679
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH freiner
Nearest frequency peer: freiner (-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 « friends »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- forestiers
forestiers
85,325 corpus weight
- foy
foy
85,324 corpus weight
- freiner
freiner
85,323 corpus weight
- friends
friends
85,322 corpus weight
- fuis
fuis
85,321 corpus weight
- gagnera
gagnera
85,320 corpus weight
What this shows « friends » 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 | friends |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɹɛndz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « friends »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around friends (IPA \fɹɛndz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,679 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de friend.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for friends, with forms such as "ffriends", "firends", and "freinds". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Fries", "friend", "Fields", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is friends, spelled F-R-I-E-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de friend.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffriends
- firends
- freinds
- friedns
- friendds
- friendss
- friennds
- friensd
- frineds
- frriends
- rfiends
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of friends - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).