reboot
\ʁə.but\
The verdict
“reboot” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,103
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Redémarrage d’ordinateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reboot · reboot · French
reboot · rank #29,103 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,103
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH RDS
Nearest frequency peer: RDS (-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 « reboot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ramsey
Ramsey
70,900 corpus weight
- RDS
RDS
70,899 corpus weight
- reboot
reboot
70,898 corpus weight
- recenser
recenser
70,897 corpus weight
- reconverti
reconverti
70,896 corpus weight
- renan
renan
70,895 corpus weight
What this shows « reboot » 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 | reboot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.but\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reboot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around reboot (IPA \ʁə.but\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,103 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for reboot, with forms such as "erboot", "rbeoot", and "rebboot". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "root", "robot", "rebut", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is reboot, spelled R-E-B-O-O-T.
Definition
- 1Redémarrage d’ordinateur.
- 2Redémarrage d’une ancienne saga de films, de jeux, etc. ; la nouvelle saga recommençant depuis le début, indépendamment de l’ancienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reboot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plutôt que de céder à la tendance des suites et des reboots, Mojang parie sur la continuité. Cette stratégie, bien que plus exigeante sur le plan technique, permet de renforcer la relation avec les joueurs et de préserver un écosystème riche et familier.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erboot
- rbeoot
- rebboot
- reboott
- rebot
- reboto
- reobot
- rreboot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reboot - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).