posts
\pɔst\
The verdict
“posts” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,215. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,215
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de post.
Corpus desk
Index FR-posts · posts · French
posts · rank #15,215 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,215
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH possiblement
Nearest frequency peer: possiblement (-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 « posts »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- polluants
polluants
84,789 corpus weight
- por
por
84,788 corpus weight
- possiblement
possiblement
84,787 corpus weight
- posts
posts
84,786 corpus weight
- poulets
poulets
84,785 corpus weight
- pressée
pressée
84,784 corpus weight
What this shows « posts » 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 | posts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « posts »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around posts (IPA \pɔst\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,215 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de post.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for posts, with forms such as "opsts", "possts", and "postss". 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, "pot", "pts", "pote", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is posts, spelled P-O-S-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de post.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opsts
- possts
- postss
- postts
- pposts
- psots
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of posts - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).