scoop
\skup\
The verdict
“scoop” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,758. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,758
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exclusivité ou primeur d'une information.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scoop · scoop · French
scoop · rank #15,758 · 6 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,758
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH savourer
Nearest frequency peer: savourer (-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 « scoop »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saoul
saoul
84,246 corpus weight
- saturation
saturation
84,245 corpus weight
- savourer
savourer
84,244 corpus weight
- scoop
scoop
84,243 corpus weight
- sidi
sidi
84,242 corpus weight
- sieur
sieur
84,241 corpus weight
What this shows « scoop » 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 | scoop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skup\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « scoop »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around scoop (IPA \skup\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,758 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Exclusivité ou primeur d'une information.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for scoop, with forms such as "csoop", "sccoop", and "scoopp". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "soo", "stop", "shop", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is scoop, spelled S-C-O-O-P.
Definition
- 1Exclusivité ou primeur d'une information.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scoop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Écoute, Vincent ! En toute amitié, je te conseille de garder pour toi ce scoop ! Je n’aimerais pas qu’on dise que tu yoyotes ! — Je me fiche pas mal du qu’en-dira-t-on, Hanna !
Dans Cartel, Pablo Mora, aussi passionné par son métier que mal payé, voit sa ville, Ciudad Juárez, à la frontière du Texas, lentement transformée en abattoir. « Le scoop, déplore-t-il, ce serait l’absence de cadavre dans les rues. »
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csoop
- sccoop
- scoopp
- scopo
- socop
- sscoop
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scoop - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).