fringues
\fʁɛ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“fringues” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,878. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,878
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fringue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fringues · fringues · French
fringues · rank #10,878 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,878
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fournies
Nearest frequency peer: fournies (-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 « fringues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fire
fire
89,127 corpus weight
- fournies
fournies
89,124 corpus weight
- fringues
fringues
89,123 corpus weight
- GMT
GMT
89,122 corpus weight
- god
god
89,121 corpus weight
- gravure
gravure
89,120 corpus weight
What this shows « fringues » 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 | fringues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɛ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fringues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around fringues (IPA \fʁɛ̃ɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,878 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fringue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for fringues, with forms such as "ffringues", "firngues", and "frignues". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "figues", "fringe", "flingue", 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 fringues, spelled F-R-I-N-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fringue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fringues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec les enfants, à table, Il a ainsi découvert qu’il existait des applis pour covoiturer, cohabiter, coéchanger à peu près tout, des fringues, de l’argent, des cours à la fac…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffringues
- firngues
- frignues
- fringeus
- fringgues
- fringuess
- fringuse
- frinngues
- frinuges
- frnigues
- frringues
- rfingues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fringues - 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 "fringues", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).