future
\fy.tyʁ\
The verdict
“future” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,335. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,335
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Future épouse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-future · future · French
future · rank #3,335 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,335
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frank
Nearest frequency peer: frank (-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 « future »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fermeture
fermeture
96,669 corpus weight
- fondateur
fondateur
96,668 corpus weight
- frank
frank
96,667 corpus weight
- future
future
96,666 corpus weight
- galerie
galerie
96,665 corpus weight
- indice
indice
96,664 corpus weight
What this shows « future » 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 | future |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « future »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around future (IPA \fy.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,335 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Future épouse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for future, with forms such as "ffuture", "ftuure", and "futrue". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "futurs", "futures", "futur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is future, spelled F-U-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Future épouse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how future appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le contrat de 1650, la future a reçu « pour frais nuptiaux non restituables, une couverte de layne, deux linceuls bons et suffisants, […]. »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffuture
- ftuure
- futrue
- futture
- futuer
- futurre
- fuutre
- ufture
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of future - 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 "future", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).