footing
\fu.tiŋ\
The verdict
“footing” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,821. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,821
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marche ou course assez lente pour l’exercice ou l’entraînement physique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-footing · footing · French
footing · rank #32,821 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,821
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH florilège
Nearest frequency peer: florilège (-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 « footing »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ferri
ferri
67,183 corpus weight
- fifi
fifi
67,182 corpus weight
- florilège
florilège
67,181 corpus weight
- footing
footing
67,180 corpus weight
- forez
forez
67,179 corpus weight
- frida
frida
67,178 corpus weight
What this shows « footing » 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 | footing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.tiŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « footing »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around footing (IPA \fu.tiŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,821 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Marche ou course assez lente pour l’exercice ou l’entraînement physique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for footing, with forms such as "ffooting", "fooitng", and "footign". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "fortin", "forcing", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is footing, spelled F-O-O-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Marche ou course assez lente pour l’exercice ou l’entraînement physique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how footing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est tout de même, un peu, un jeu d’imbéciles mais enfin c’est délassant et hygiénique en ce sens qu’on marche, qu’on fait du « footing » autour du billard sans s’en apercevoir.
Et au lieu de footing, dites marche. Si je vous écrase le pied, vous ne dites pas j’ai mal à mon foot !…
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffooting
- fooitng
- footign
- footingg
- footinng
- footnig
- footting
- foting
- fotoing
- ofoting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of footing - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).