scar
\skɑː(ɹ)\
The verdict
“scar” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,439. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,439
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cicatrice, balafre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scar · scar · French
scar · rank #46,439 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,439
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Schindler
Nearest frequency peer: Schindler (+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 « scar »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sart
sart
53,565 corpus weight
- sautez
sautez
53,564 corpus weight
- scar
scar
53,562 corpus weight
- Schindler
Schindler
53,561 corpus weight
- scindé
scindé
53,560 corpus weight
- sciure
sciure
53,559 corpus weight
What this shows « scar » 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 | scar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skɑː(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « scar »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around scar (IPA \skɑː(ɹ)\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,439 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Cicatrice, balafre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for scar, with forms such as "csar", "sacr", and "scarr". 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, "sr", "sur", "sir", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is scar, spelled S-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Cicatrice, balafre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csar
- sacr
- scarr
- sccar
- scra
- sscar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scar - 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).