Phillips
\fi.lips\
The verdict
“Phillips” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,102. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,102
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phillips · Phillips · French
Phillips · rank #19,102 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,102
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pharma
Nearest frequency peer: pharma (-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 « Phillips »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Perret
Perret
80,902 corpus weight
- pharaon
pharaon
80,901 corpus weight
- pharma
pharma
80,900 corpus weight
- Phillips
Phillips
80,899 corpus weight
- piller
piller
80,898 corpus weight
- pirater
pirater
80,897 corpus weight
What this shows « Phillips » 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 | Phillips |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fi.lips\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Phillips »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Phillips (IPA \fi.lips\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,102 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Phillips, with forms such as "hpillips", "phhillips", and "phililps". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Phyllis", "Philip", "Philips", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Phillips, spelled P-H-I-L-L-I-P-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Phillips appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les élèves de CE2 de madame Phillips de l’école du Centre se sont préparés durant plusieurs semaines pour prendre, le temps d’une soirée, la place des médiatrices du musée et présenter les œuvres de leur choix.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hpillips
- phhillips
- phililps
- phillipps
- phillipss
- phillisp
- phillpis
- phlilips
- pihllips
- pphillips
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Phillips - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Phillips", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).