funk
\fœŋk\
The verdict
“funk” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,492. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,492
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une forme de musique rythmique afro-américaine apparue à la fin des années 1960, mélangeant la musique soul, le soul jazz et le rhythm and blues dans la lignée du hard bop.
Corpus desk
Index FR-funk · funk · French
funk · rank #18,492 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,492
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fronde
Nearest frequency peer: fronde (-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 « funk »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- frisson
frisson
81,512 corpus weight
- fritz
fritz
81,511 corpus weight
- fronde
fronde
81,510 corpus weight
- funk
funk
81,509 corpus weight
- Gandhi
Gandhi
81,508 corpus weight
- generation
generation
81,507 corpus weight
What this shows « funk » 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 | funk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fœŋk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « funk »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around funk (IPA \fœŋk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,492 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Une forme de musique rythmique afro-américaine apparue à la fin des années 1960, mélangeant la musique soul, le soul jazz et le rhythm and blues dans la lignée du hard bop.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for funk, with forms such as "ffunk", "fnuk", and "fukn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fût", "fus", "für", 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is funk, spelled F-U-N-K.
Definition
- 1Une forme de musique rythmique afro-américaine apparue à la fin des années 1960, mélangeant la musique soul, le soul jazz et le rhythm and blues dans la lignée du hard bop.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how funk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand je suis arrivé à New York en 1968, le be-bop, le free, le funk (qu’on appelait alors « bougalou »), le rythm and blues et l’Afrique – qui sont tous fusionnés dans ma musique – faisaient l’objet d’une telle ségrégation que les pratiquants d’un style ne pouvaient (on ne voulaient) en jouer un autre.
Au début des années 1970, les très populaires sorties en discothèque se font aux sons de la musique funk et du disco. Les DJ règnent en maîtres dans ces soirées, passant les derniers tubes et soignant les enchaînements rythmiques pour les danseurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffunk
- fnuk
- fukn
- funkk
- funnk
- ufnk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of funk - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).