kidnapping
\kid.na.piŋ\
The verdict
“kidnapping” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,235. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,235
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enlèvement généralement accompagné de demande de rançon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kidnapping · kidnapping · French
kidnapping · rank #30,235 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,235
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH khmers
Nearest frequency peer: khmers (-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 « kidnapping »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Jürgen
Jürgen
69,769 corpus weight
- Katanga
Katanga
69,768 corpus weight
- khmers
khmers
69,767 corpus weight
- kidnapping
kidnapping
69,766 corpus weight
- kilogrammes
kilogrammes
69,765 corpus weight
- kitchen
kitchen
69,764 corpus weight
What this shows « kidnapping » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kidnapping |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kid.na.piŋ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « kidnapping »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around kidnapping (IPA \kid.na.piŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,235 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Enlèvement généralement accompagné de demande de rançon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for kidnapping, with forms such as "ikdnapping", "kdinapping", and "kidanpping". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is kidnapping, spelled K-I-D-N-A-P-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Enlèvement généralement accompagné de demande de rançon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kidnapping appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La bataille n’était pas encore gagnée, mais l’ensemble des forces de l’ordre s’impliquait pour éradiquer le phénomène du kidnapping, dont étaient désormais victimes des enfants.
On ne compte plus les horreurs commises par ses membres, dont la plus médiatique fut le kidnapping, en 2014, de 276 lycéennes à Chibok, dans le nord-est du Nigeria (une centaine sont toujours captives et aujourd’hui oubliées).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ikdnapping
- kdinapping
- kidanpping
- kiddnapping
- kidnaping
- kidnapipng
- kidnappign
- kidnappingg
- kidnappinng
- kidnappnig
- kidnnapping
- kidnpaping
- kindapping
- kkidnapping
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kidnapping - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).