ISSN
\i.ɛ.s‿ɛ.s‿ɛn\
The verdict
“ISSN” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,392) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,392
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Numéro international d’identification des publications périodiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-issn · ISSN · French
ISSN · rank #37,392 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,392
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irriter
Nearest frequency peer: irriter (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ISSN »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- invasive
invasive
62,612 corpus weight
- Ironman
Ironman
62,611 corpus weight
- irriter
irriter
62,610 corpus weight
- ISSN
ISSN
62,609 corpus weight
- Istres
Istres
62,608 corpus weight
- Jakob
Jakob
62,607 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ISSN » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | ISSN |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ɛ.s‿ɛ.s‿ɛn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ISSN »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ISSN is neighbouring look-alikes ("its", "issu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \i.ɛ.s‿ɛ.s‿ɛn\. Frequency #37,392 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Numéro international d’identification des publications périodiques.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for ISSN, with forms such as "isn", "isns", and "issnn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "its", "issu", "Ivan", 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ISSN, spelled I-S-S-N.
Definition
- 1Numéro international d’identification des publications périodiques.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isn
- isns
- issnn
- sisn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ISSN - 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 "ISSN", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).