ring
\ʁiŋ\
The verdict
“ring” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,123. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,123
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espace délimité par des cordes où a lieu un combat (de boxe, de catch…).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ring · ring · French
ring · rank #11,123 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,123
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retenus
Nearest frequency peer: retenus (-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 « ring »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reprends
reprends
88,881 corpus weight
- requiert
requiert
88,880 corpus weight
- retenus
retenus
88,879 corpus weight
- ring
ring
88,878 corpus weight
- robinson
robinson
88,877 corpus weight
- Roma
Roma
88,876 corpus weight
What this shows « ring » 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 | ring |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁiŋ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ring »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ring (IPA \ʁiŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,123 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ring, with forms such as "irng", "rign", and "ringg". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rio", "riz", "run", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ring, spelled R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Espace délimité par des cordes où a lieu un combat (de boxe, de catch…).
- 2Autoroute faisant le tour d’une ville, boulevard périphérique, rocade.
- 3Sport canin se déroulant dans un terrain clos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le long quadrilatère était divisé en deux parties : l'une, au sol couvert de tatamis et l’autre, au fond, réservée à la boxe avec sacs de frappe et ring sorti d'un film américain des années 50.
Dans un coin, la buvette accueillait, toujours ceux qui avaient essuyé quelques refus et les consolait par une ou deux tournées de « blanc-limé », du vin blanc avec un peu de limonade, ce qui finissait par énerver, et transformait la piste de danse, en ring de pugilat, il fallait bien que jeunesse se passe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irng
- rign
- ringg
- rinng
- rnig
- rring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ring - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).