scotch
\skɔtʃ\
The verdict
“scotch” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,165. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,165
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Whisky écossais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scotch · scotch · French
scotch · rank #21,165 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,165
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sasha
Nearest frequency peer: Sasha (-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 « scotch »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sadique
sadique
78,839 corpus weight
- Sammy
Sammy
78,838 corpus weight
- Sasha
Sasha
78,837 corpus weight
- scotch
scotch
78,836 corpus weight
- shin
shin
78,835 corpus weight
- siffler
siffler
78,834 corpus weight
What this shows « scotch » 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 | scotch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skɔtʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « scotch »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around scotch (IPA \skɔtʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,165 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for scotch, with forms such as "csotch", "sccotch", and "scocth". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Scott", "switch", "sketch", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 scotch, spelled S-C-O-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Whisky écossais.
- 2Verre de ce whisky.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scotch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il trouva tout de suite les verres, la glace, le scotch, et força un peu sur la dose.
Le whisky n’était pas du bourbon mais du scotch, du White Horse, du bon, pour Gérard du moins : les Yankees buvaient du rye, ils aiment le goût de brillantine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csotch
- sccotch
- scocth
- scotcch
- scotchh
- scothc
- scottch
- sctoch
- soctch
- sscotch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scotch - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "scotch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).