francês

//fɾã.ˈsejs// adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,312

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

francês is anPortugueseadj. It means: relativo ou pertencente à França Pronounced /fɾã.ˈsejs/. It ranks #1,312 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with franco and Francis.

Key facts for francês
PropertyValue
Headwordfrancês
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/fɾã.ˈsejs/
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,312
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for francês is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fɾã.ˈsejs/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,312 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "relativo ou pertencente à França".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for francês, with forms such as "farncês", "ffrancês", and "fracnês". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "franco", "Francis", "François", 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 francês, spelled F-R-A-N-C-Ê-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    relativo ou pertencente à França

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: farncês,ffrancês,fracnês,franccês,francsê,francêss,franncês,franêcs,frnacês,frrancês,rfancês

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for francês

Misspelling Variants of "francês"

farncês7ffrancês8fracnês7franccês8francsê7francêss8franncês8franêcs7
Misspelling Variants of "francês"

Frequency rank: #1,312 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "francês"?
"francês" is spelled F-R-A-N-C-Ê-S. The IPA pronunciation is /fɾã.ˈsejs/.
What does "francês" mean?
As an adj, "francês" means: relativo ou pertencente à França
What words are commonly confused with "francês"?
"francês" is commonly confused with "franco", "Francis", "François". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "francês"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "francês" is /fɾã.ˈsejs/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "francês" come from?
"francês" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.