islam
\i.slam\
The verdict
“islam” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,085. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,085
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Religion monothéiste fondée par Mahomet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-islam · islam · French
islam · rank #2,085 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,085
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH locale
Nearest frequency peer: locale (+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 « islam »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Henri
Henri
97,919 corpus weight
- honte
honte
97,918 corpus weight
- islam
islam
97,916 corpus weight
- locale
locale
97,915 corpus weight
- menace
menace
97,914 corpus weight
- mettent
mettent
97,913 corpus weight
What this shows « islam » 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 | islam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.slam\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « islam »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around islam (IPA \i.slam\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,085 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Religion monothéiste fondée par Mahomet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for islam, with forms such as "ilsam", "isalm", and "islamm". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "isle", "Issa", "isles", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is islam, spelled I-S-L-A-M.
Definition
- 1Religion monothéiste fondée par Mahomet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how islam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le front, juste au milieu, la croix berbère était tracée en bleu, symbole inconnu, inexplicable chez ces peuplades autochtones qui ne furent jamais chrétiennes et que l’islam vint prendre toutes sauvages et fétichistes, pour sa grande floraison de foi et d’espérance.
Mais le conservateur musulman traditionnel, quiétiste, […], croit toujours que la vérité et la sagesse suprêmes résident dans l’Islam, supérieur, non dans l’Occident, inférieur.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilsam
- isalm
- islamm
- isllam
- islma
- isslam
- silam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of islam - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).