scooter
\sku.tœʁ\
The verdict
“scooter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,943
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite motocyclette caractérisée par de petites roues, un plancher plat et un carénage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scooter · scooter · French
scooter · rank #10,943 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,943
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH savant
Nearest frequency peer: savant (-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 « scooter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réhabilitat…
réhabilitation
89,061 corpus weight
- réussissent
réussissent
89,060 corpus weight
- savant
savant
89,059 corpus weight
- scooter
scooter
89,058 corpus weight
- Seattle
Seattle
89,057 corpus weight
- serviette
serviette
89,056 corpus weight
What this shows « scooter » 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 | scooter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sku.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « scooter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around scooter (IPA \sku.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,943 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petite motocyclette caractérisée par de petites roues, un plancher plat et un carénage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for scooter, with forms such as "csooter", "sccooter", and "scooetr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "shooter", "scruter", "siroter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is scooter, spelled S-C-O-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Petite motocyclette caractérisée par de petites roues, un plancher plat et un carénage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scooter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les scooters ne constituent pas une catégorie administrative, mais l’appellation commerciale des deux et trois-roues à moteur caractérisés par des petites roues, un cadre ouvert formant plancher et un carénage. Selon leurs caractéristiques techniques, les scooters appartiennent à l’une des catégories administratives précitées.
On étudie ici le moteur deux temps de marque Marinelli équipant des scooters. Ce moteur, inventé en 1860 par Étienne Lenoir, concerne les petites cylindrées de l'ordre de 50 cm³.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csooter
- sccooter
- scooetr
- scooterr
- scootre
- scootter
- scoter
- scotoer
- socoter
- sscooter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scooter - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).