ruth
\ɹuːθ\
The verdict
“ruth” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,858. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,858
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pitié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ruth · ruth · French
ruth · rank #12,858 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,858
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH récidive
Nearest frequency peer: récidive (+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 « ruth »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- retomber
retomber
87,147 corpus weight
- romance
romance
87,146 corpus weight
- royaumes
royaumes
87,145 corpus weight
- ruth
ruth
87,143 corpus weight
- récidive
récidive
87,142 corpus weight
- salariale
salariale
87,140 corpus weight
What this shows « ruth » 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 | ruth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹuːθ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ruth »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ruth (IPA \ɹuːθ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,858 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pitié.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ruth, with forms such as "rruth", "rtuh", and "ruht". 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, "Rh", "RT", "ru", and more, 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 ruth, spelled R-U-T-H.
Definition
- 1Pitié.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rruth
- rtuh
- ruht
- ruthh
- rutth
- urth
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ruth - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).