fûts
\fy\
The verdict
“fûts” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,949
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de fût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-futs · fûts · French
fûts · rank #21,949 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,949
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 137,178
- PHOTO-FINISH fréquentée
Nearest frequency peer: fréquentée (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “fûts”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- foreign
foreign
78,056 corpus weight
- fréquentée
fréquentée
78,053 corpus weight
- fûts
fûts
78,052 corpus weight
- gadgets
gadgets
78,051 corpus weight
- Gambetta
Gambetta
78,050 corpus weight
- garni
garni
78,049 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “fûts” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | fûts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fûts” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fûts (IPA \fy\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,949 among 137,178 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fût.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fûts, with forms such as "ffûts", "ftûs", and "futs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "futur", "futurs", "futsal", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fûts, spelled F-Û-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fût.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffûts
- ftûs
- futs
- fûst
- fûtss
- fûtts
- ûfts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fûts - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fûts", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.