phishing
\fi.ʃiŋ\
The verdict
“phishing” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,271
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technique frauduleuse utilisée par les pirates informatiques pour récupérer des informations (généralement bancaires) auprès d’internautes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phishing · phishing · French
phishing · rank #49,271 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,271
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pfeiffer
Nearest frequency peer: Pfeiffer (-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 « phishing »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- permettrais
permettrais
50,733 corpus weight
- peupler
peupler
50,732 corpus weight
- Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer
50,731 corpus weight
- phishing
phishing
50,730 corpus weight
- phonétiques
phonétiques
50,729 corpus weight
- Pierrefitte
Pierrefitte
50,728 corpus weight
What this shows « phishing » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « phishing »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around phishing (IPA \fi.ʃiŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,271 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how phishing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le phishing, ou hameçonnage, constitue l’un des nouveaux travers d’Internet et des messages électroniques.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).