phishing
\fi.ʃiŋ\
The verdict
“phishing” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #49,271 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #49,271
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Technique frauduleuse utilisée par les pirates informatiques pour récupérer des informations (généralement bancaires) auprès d’internautes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phishing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.ʃiŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “phishing” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for phishing is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.ʃiŋ\. Corpus data places it at rank #49,271 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Technique frauduleuse utilisée par les pirates informatiques pour récupérer des informations (généralement bancaires) auprès d’internautes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for phishing, with forms such as "hpishing", "phhishing", and "phihsing". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 phishing, spelled P-H-I-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Technique frauduleuse utilisée par les pirates informatiques pour récupérer des informations (généralement bancaires) auprès d’internautes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hpishing,phhishing,phihsing,phishhing,phishign,phishingg,phishinng,phishnig,phisihng,phisshing,phsihing,pihshing,pphishing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of phishing - 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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Using “phishing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-H-I-S-H-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fi.ʃiŋ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.