award
\əˈwɔːd\
The verdict
“award” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,552
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prix, prime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-award · award · French
award · rank #16,552 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,552
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Aveyron
Nearest frequency peer: Aveyron (-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 « award »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- associatif
associatif
83,451 corpus weight
- Aveyron
Aveyron
83,450 corpus weight
- award
award
83,449 corpus weight
- Bachar
Bachar
83,448 corpus weight
- Bieber
Bieber
83,447 corpus weight
- bird
bird
83,446 corpus weight
What this shows « award » 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 | award |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \əˈwɔːd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « award »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around award (IPA \əˈwɔːd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,552 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prix, prime.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for award, with forms such as "aawrd", "awadr", and "awardd". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "away", "amar", "agar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is award, spelled A-W-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Prix, prime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how award appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To attribute an award.
Our annual awards are the perfect opportunity to recognise and celebrate the incredible achievements of its members towards our shared goal of improved road safety accross Europe
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aawrd
- awadr
- awardd
- awarrd
- awrad
- awward
- waard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of award - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "award", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).