Sally
The verdict
“Sally” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,233. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,233
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sally · Sally · French
Sally · rank #16,233 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,233
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH répit
Nearest frequency peer: répit (-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 « Sally »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Roméo
Roméo
83,771 corpus weight
- réjouis
réjouis
83,770 corpus weight
- répit
répit
83,769 corpus weight
- Sally
Sally
83,768 corpus weight
- semé
semé
83,767 corpus weight
- Sergueï
Sergueï
83,766 corpus weight
What this shows « Sally » 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 | Sally |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sally »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Sally, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,233 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sally, with forms such as "aslly", "sallyy", and "saly". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "say", "sly", "salt", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Sally, spelled S-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sally appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sally Poppy sera-t-elle pendue sur la place publique ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslly
- sallyy
- saly
- salyl
- slaly
- ssally
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sally - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).