fronce
\fʁɔ̃s\
The verdict
“fronce” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,665. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,665
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pli menu et serré que l’on fait à l’étoffe d’un vêtement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fronce · fronce · French
fronce · rank #49,665 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,665
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH friteuse
Nearest frequency peer: friteuse (-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 « fronce »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- freudienne
freudienne
50,339 corpus weight
- friable
friable
50,338 corpus weight
- friteuse
friteuse
50,337 corpus weight
- fronce
fronce
50,336 corpus weight
- fumisterie
fumisterie
50,335 corpus weight
- furtifs
furtifs
50,334 corpus weight
What this shows « fronce » 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 | fronce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɔ̃s\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fronce »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fronce (IPA \fʁɔ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,665 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pli menu et serré que l’on fait à l’étoffe d’un vêtement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fronce, with forms such as "ffronce", "fornce", and "frnoce". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "front", "fronts", "fronde", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fronce, spelled F-R-O-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Pli menu et serré que l’on fait à l’étoffe d’un vêtement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fronce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourquoi ces fronces, qui étriquaient le vêtement ? et celui-ci, carré des épaules, ne l’aurait-on pas dit taillé à coups de hache ?
Telcide se réveille en sursaut. Tenant avant tout à la correction, elle remet, exactement au centre de sa poitrine plate, son crucifix d’argent et cherche, dans les multiples fronces de sa jupe, celle de ses innombrables poches qui contient son mouchoir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffronce
- fornce
- frnoce
- frocne
- froncce
- fronec
- fronnce
- frronce
- rfonce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fronce - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).