safari
\sa.fa.ʁi\
The verdict
“safari” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,398. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,398
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chasse ou excursion (ex. safari photographique) guidée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-safari · safari · French
safari · rank #19,398 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,398
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Saddam
Nearest frequency peer: Saddam (-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 « safari »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Rodolphe
Rodolphe
80,607 corpus weight
- rougir
rougir
80,606 corpus weight
- Saddam
Saddam
80,604 corpus weight
- safari
safari
80,603 corpus weight
- saisissant
saisissant
80,602 corpus weight
- santo
santo
80,600 corpus weight
What this shows « safari » 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 | safari |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.fa.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « safari »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around safari (IPA \sa.fa.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,398 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chasse ou excursion (ex. safari photographique) guidée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for safari, with forms such as "asfari", "saafri", and "safair". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Safi", "Sahara", "Savary", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 safari, spelled S-A-F-A-R-I.
Definition
- 1Chasse ou excursion (ex. safari photographique) guidée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how safari appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La campagne de Survival International visant à proscrire les safaris humains dans les îles Andaman, en Inde, vient de remporter une victoire majeure, la Cour suprême ayant décidé d’interdire aux touristes la route qui traverse la réserve des Jarawa. https://web.archive.org/web/20130203053007/http://www.survivalfrance.org/actu/8945
La visite des parcs dans l’automobile du visiteur (ou du parc) rappelle les explorations africaines, ce type d’établissement se pare du nom de safari (qui signifierait chasse dans une langue africaine).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asfari
- saafri
- safair
- safarri
- saffari
- safrai
- sfaari
- ssafari
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of safari - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).