FrenchWrite — French Writing Editor
Write in French, watch the word count update as you type, and insert accents with one click. Free, with nothing to sign up for.
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Write in French, watch the word count update as you type, and insert accents with one click. Free, with nothing to sign up for.
I built the editor on this page while I was studying for the TCF Canada expression écrite. I kept bouncing between a plain notepad and a separate word counter, and getting accented letters right was its own hassle on top of that. I wanted one page where I could write in French, watch the count update as I typed, and not have to make an account to do it.
Here's what's in it: an accent toolbar for the 16 characters French uses that a US keyboard doesn't have, a word and character count that updates with every keystroke, and a goal you can set once and watch a progress bar fill toward. Everything saves to your own browser as you go — the text itself never reaches me, so there's nothing to sign up for and nothing I could hand back to you even if you asked. It doesn't correct your grammar or score your writing; it's a page to write on, nothing more. There's a full walkthrough of every button in the editor guide, and if sentence structure and tenses are still the shaky part, How to Write in French covers that before you sit down to write.
The rest of FrenchWrite is smaller, single-purpose tools built for the same audience — learners, students, people living in a French-speaking country, and exam candidates. If you're pasting in a draft rather than writing fresh, the word counter does the same live counting on its own page, with one-click presets for TCF, DELF and DALF minimums built in. Unsure mid-sentence whether it's il faut or il fallait? The verb conjugator lays out all nine tenses and moods for any verb, être and avoir included. The gender checker gives you le or la and the suffix rule behind it, for the roughly 1,100 nouns in its database plus the patterns that predict most of the rest. The synonyms tool is for when you've used the same word three times in one paragraph and can feel it — type a word and get alternatives grouped by part of speech, with example sentences.
If you're specifically preparing for TCF Canada or TEF Canada — the two French tests IRCC accepts for immigration applications — the TCF Writing Practice tool covers all three official tasks, Tâche 1 through Tâche 3, and the TEF Writing Practice tool covers both sections, Section A and Section B, each with random official-style prompts that drop you straight into this same editor to answer them. And the typing test measures how fast you actually type in French, accents included, which is a different skill from writing well and worth checking on its own.
Yes to both — it's free, and there's no account. Open the editor and start typing; there's no sign-up screen in between and no cap on how much you write.
In your browser's local storage, and nowhere else. FrenchWrite has no server-side database or login system, so nothing you write is backed up anywhere but your own browser — clearing your browser data clears it too.
TCF Canada and TEF Canada each have their own practice tool, with real prompts for every official task. The word counter has one-click presets for those two plus DELF B2 (250 words) and DALF C1 (400 words); for anything else, set your own goal in the editor and use it the same way.
Yes — the layout adapts and the accent toolbar works with a tap. Most phone keyboards already offer accented letters through a long-press, though, so the toolbar matters more on a laptop, where that shortcut doesn't exist.
No. The editor doesn't cap length, and if you're tracking toward a specific number, set it as your goal — the progress bar tells you when you've reached it, and stays out of the way if you're not aiming for one.
Only to load the page the first time. After that, typing, the accent toolbar, the word count, and auto-save all happen in your browser — reload the tab and it'll need that connection again, but nothing else does.
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