França

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,011

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

França is aPortuguesenoun. It means: país da Europa ocidental, que faz fronteira com a Bélgica, o Luxemburgo, a Alemanha, a Suíça, a Itália, o Mónaco, Espanha e Andorra; possui também a Córsega, no Mediterrâneo e, como possessões ultr... It ranks #1,011 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with frank and franco.

Key facts for França
PropertyValue
HeadwordFrança
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,011
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of França in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for França is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #1,011 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "país da Europa ocidental, que faz fronteira com a Bélgica, o Luxemburgo, a Alemanha, a Suíça, a Itália, o Mónaco, Espanha e Andorra; possui também a Córsega, no Mediterrâneo e, como possessões ultr...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for França, with forms such as "farnça", "ffrança", and "franaç". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "frank", "franco", "frango", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is França, spelled F-R-A-N-Ç-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    país da Europa ocidental, que faz fronteira com a Bélgica, o Luxemburgo, a Alemanha, a Suíça, a Itália, o Mónaco, Espanha e Andorra; possui também a Córsega, no Mediterrâneo e, como possessões ultramarinas, a Guiana Francesa, na América do Sul, Martinica e a Polinésia Francesa, na Oceania, entre outras; sua capital é Paris e a língua oficial o francês; chama-se ao seu habitante, francês

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: farnça,ffrança,franaç,frannça,fraçna,frnaça,frrança,rfança

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for França

Misspelling Variants of "França"

farnça6ffrança7franaç6frannça7fraçna6frnaça6frrança7rfança6
Misspelling Variants of "França"

Frequency rank: #1,011 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "França"?
"França" is spelled F-R-A-N-Ç-A.
What does "França" mean?
As a noun, "França" means: país da Europa ocidental, que faz fronteira com a Bélgica, o Luxemburgo, a Alemanha, a Suíça, a Itália, o Mónaco, Espanha e Andorra; possui também a Córsega, no Mediterrâneo e, como possessões ultr...
What words are commonly confused with "França"?
"França" is commonly confused with "frank", "franco", "frango". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "França" come from?
"França" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter F in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.