row
\ɹoʊ\
The verdict
“row” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,451) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,451
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligne, rangée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-row · row · French
row · rank #33,451 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,451
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rousseur
Nearest frequency peer: rousseur (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « row »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Rosny
Rosny
66,554 corpus weight
- rotor
rotor
66,553 corpus weight
- rousseur
rousseur
66,551 corpus weight
- row
row
66,550 corpus weight
- râteau
râteau
66,549 corpus weight
- résidentiel…
résidentielles
66,547 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « row » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | row |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹoʊ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « row »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for row is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɹoʊ\. Frequency #33,451 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Ligne, rangée.".
row doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 row, spelled R-O-W.
Definition
- 1Ligne, rangée.
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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