S3
\ɛs.tʁwa\
The verdict
“S3” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,957) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,957
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième vertèbre sacrale (de haut en bas).
Corpus desk
Index FR-s3 · S3 · French
S3 · rank #27,957 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,957
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH rétine
Nearest frequency peer: rétine (-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 « S3 »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- réincarnati…
réincarnation
72,047 corpus weight
- répartissent
répartissent
72,046 corpus weight
- rétine
rétine
72,045 corpus weight
- S3
S3
72,044 corpus weight
- sacro
sacro
72,043 corpus weight
- saillant
saillant
72,042 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « S3 » 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 | S3 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.tʁwa\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #27,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « S3 »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for S3 is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "si", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛs.tʁwa\. Frequency #27,957 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième vertèbre sacrale (de haut en bas).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for S3, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "si", "sa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is S3, spelled S-3.
Definition
- 1Troisième vertèbre sacrale (de haut en bas).
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.