pharaon
\fa.ʁa.ɔ̃\
The verdict
“pharaon” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,100. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,100
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Souverain de l’Égypte antique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pharaon · pharaon · French
pharaon · rank #19,100 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,100
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Perret
Nearest frequency peer: Perret (-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 « pharaon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perfectionn…
perfectionner
80,904 corpus weight
- permise
permise
80,903 corpus weight
- Perret
Perret
80,902 corpus weight
- pharaon
pharaon
80,901 corpus weight
- pharma
pharma
80,900 corpus weight
- Phillips
Phillips
80,899 corpus weight
What this shows « pharaon » 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 | pharaon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.ʁa.ɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pharaon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pharaon (IPA \fa.ʁa.ɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,100 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pharaon, with forms such as "hparaon", "pahraon", and "phaaron". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pharaons", "pardon", "Pearson", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pharaon, spelled P-H-A-R-A-O-N.
Definition
- 1Souverain de l’Égypte antique.
- 2Pouvoir d’État égyptien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pharaon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jour Marcel voulut faire poser Baptiste en costume de pharaon, pour son tableau du Passage de la mer Rouge.
La combinaison aon se prononce an nasal, a, on nasal, et a-on. Elle a le son nasal an dans faon (petit d’une biche, etc.), […] Partout ailleurs, aon se prononce a-on : Craone (ville de l’arrondissement de Laon), Lycaon (roi d’Arcadie), Phaon (personnage de l’histoire grecque), Pharaons (rois d’Égypte), etc. —Dites kra-òne, lika-on, fa-on, fara-on.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hparaon
- pahraon
- phaaron
- pharano
- pharaonn
- pharoan
- pharraon
- phharaon
- phraaon
- ppharaon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pharaon - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).