Scot
\skɔt\
The verdict
“Scot” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,804) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,804
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Document d’urbanisme définissant les orientations d'aménagement de l'espace urbain, péri-urbain et rural à l'échelle d'une agglomération ou d'un bassin de vie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scot · Scot · French
Scot · rank #30,804 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,804
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Schulz
Nearest frequency peer: Schulz (-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 « Scot »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- saxophone
saxophone
69,200 corpus weight
- schiller
schiller
69,199 corpus weight
- Schulz
Schulz
69,198 corpus weight
- Scot
Scot
69,197 corpus weight
- seat
seat
69,196 corpus weight
- seaux
seaux
69,195 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Scot » 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 | Scot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skɔt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #30,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Scot »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Scot is neighbouring look-alikes ("st", "so", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \skɔt\. Frequency #30,804 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Document d’urbanisme définissant les orientations d'aménagement de l'espace urbain, péri-urbain et rural à l'échelle d'une agglomération ou d'un bassin de vie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Scot, with forms such as "sccot", "scto", and "soct". 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, "st", "so", "son", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Scot, spelled S-C-O-T.
Definition
- 1Document d’urbanisme définissant les orientations d'aménagement de l'espace urbain, péri-urbain et rural à l'échelle d'une agglomération ou d'un bassin de vie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Scot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Le terrain concerné est en espace boisé classé. C’est un site remarquable du littoral au sens du Scot (Schéma de cohérence territoriale) et du code de l’urbanisme », justifie-t-elle.
Le Scot n’entre pas dans le détail des politiques locales mais il exprime des prévisions, des orientations et des prescriptions de niveau supra-communal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sccot
- scto
- soct
- sscot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Scot - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).