iPhone
\aj.fɔn\
The verdict
“iPhone” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,858. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,858
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ordiphone de la compagnie Apple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-iphone · iPhone · French
iPhone · rank #3,858 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,858
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intitulé
Nearest frequency peer: intitulé (-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 « iPhone »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hésite
hésite
96,146 corpus weight
- intitulé
intitulé
96,144 corpus weight
- iPhone
iPhone
96,143 corpus weight
- Joe
Joe
96,142 corpus weight
- maritime
maritime
96,141 corpus weight
- mignon
mignon
96,140 corpus weight
What this shows « iPhone » 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 | iPhone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aj.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « iPhone »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around iPhone (IPA \aj.fɔn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #3,858 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ordiphone de la compagnie Apple.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for iPhone, with forms such as "ihpone", "iphhone", and "iphnoe". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "iPhones", "icône", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is iPhone, spelled I-P-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ordiphone de la compagnie Apple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how iPhone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est pourquoi l'année 2007 est à mes yeux une année pivot : le iPhone a profondément bouleversé les mœurs sociales, et avec elles la circulation des idées qui composent notre climat intellectuel.
Qui ne connaît pas la boîte à meuh ? Pour simuler ce vieux jouet qui connaît un regain de popularité, les auteurs de boîtes à meuh ont exploité la fonction qui, dans l’iPhone, détecte le changement de sens de l’appareil.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ihpone
- iphhone
- iphnoe
- iphoen
- iphonne
- ipohne
- ipphone
- pihone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of iPhone - 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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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).