frissons
\fʁi.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“frissons” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,885. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,885
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de frisson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frissons · frissons · French
frissons · rank #15,885 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,885
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fuient
Nearest frequency peer: fuient (+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 « frissons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flots
flots
84,119 corpus weight
- fractures
fractures
84,118 corpus weight
- frissons
frissons
84,116 corpus weight
- fuient
fuient
84,115 corpus weight
- fusées
fusées
84,114 corpus weight
- fuyant
fuyant
84,113 corpus weight
What this shows « frissons » 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 | frissons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁi.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « frissons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around frissons (IPA \fʁi.sɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,885 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de frisson.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for frissons, with forms such as "ffrissons", "firssons", and "frisons". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "faisons", "frisson", "faisions", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is frissons, spelled F-R-I-S-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de frisson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how frissons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment peut-on envoyer dans la même piscine l’enfant à la peau délicate et spongieuse avec le vieillard aux téguments parcheminés ; la femme nerveuse et impressionnable avec l’homme robuste et pléthorique ; le malade lymphatique avec celui qui a le tempérament sanguin ; celui qui commence la cure avec celui qui débaigne ou qui a la fièvre et les frissons…
Mordu bientôt par le désir de jouer un rôle, il détermina un libraire, un rival de Vuillet, à fonder un journal démocratique, dont il devint un des rédacteurs les plus âpres. L’Indépendant fit, sous son impulsion, une guerre sans merci aux réactionnaires. Mais le courant l’entraîna peu à peu, malgré lui, plus loin qu’il ne voulait aller ; il en arriva à é…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffrissons
- firssons
- frisons
- frisosns
- frissnos
- frissonns
- frissonss
- frissosn
- frrissons
- frsisons
- rfissons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of frissons - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).