pharma
\faʁ.ma\
The verdict
“pharma” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,101
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pharmacie (en parlant de la science).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pharma · pharma · French
pharma · rank #19,101 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,101
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pharaon
Nearest frequency peer: pharaon (-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 « pharma »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- piller
piller
80,898 corpus weight
What this shows « pharma » 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 | pharma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \faʁ.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pharma »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pharma (IPA \faʁ.ma\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,101 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pharma, with forms such as "hparma", "pahrma", and "phamra". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "plasma", "para", "parmi", and more, 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 pharma, spelled P-H-A-R-M-A.
Definition
- 1Pharmacie (en parlant de la science).
- 2Entreprise pharmaceutique, qui produit et vend des médicaments.
- 3Pharmacie, officine où l’on prépare les médicaments, du lieu où on les conserve pour les vendre ou les distribuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pharma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les étudiants en pharma peuvent participer à la réserve dite de renfort.
Il a signé des accords avec plusieurs grosses pharmas, et mobilise pratiquement tous les moyens du labo pour eux… on ne fait plus que de la recherche à très court terme…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hparma
- pahrma
- phamra
- pharam
- pharmma
- pharrma
- phharma
- phrama
- ppharma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pharma - 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 "pharma", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).