reading
\ɹiː.dɪŋ\
The verdict
“reading” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,672
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lecture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reading · reading · French
reading · rank #22,672 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,672
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rationalité
Nearest frequency peer: rationalité (-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 « reading »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- qqn
qqn
77,332 corpus weight
- raisonnemen…
raisonnements
77,331 corpus weight
- rationalité
rationalité
77,330 corpus weight
- reading
reading
77,329 corpus weight
- redis
redis
77,327 corpus weight
- remettez
remettez
77,326 corpus weight
What this shows « reading » 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 | reading |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹiː.dɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reading »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around reading (IPA \ɹiː.dɪŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,672 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for reading, with forms such as "erading", "raeding", and "readding". 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. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "roaming", "radin", "racing", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 reading, spelled R-E-A-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Lecture.
- 2Leçon (variante lexicale ou orthographique d’un texte).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reading appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Reading stimulates the imagination.
My hobbies are taking pictures and reading.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erading
- raeding
- readding
- readign
- readingg
- readinng
- readnig
- reaidng
- redaing
- rreading
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reading - 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 "reading", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).