scout
\skut\
The verdict
“scout” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,767. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,767
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui pratique le scoutisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scout · scout · French
scout · rank #21,767 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,767
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH search
Nearest frequency peer: search (+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 « scout »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sandwichs
sandwichs
78,237 corpus weight
- Schengen
Schengen
78,236 corpus weight
- scout
scout
78,234 corpus weight
- search
search
78,233 corpus weight
- sensée
sensée
78,232 corpus weight
- Seymour
Seymour
78,231 corpus weight
What this shows « scout » 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 | scout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skut\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « scout »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around scout (IPA \skut\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,767 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for scout, with forms such as "csout", "sccout", and "scotu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sou", "sot", "sont", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 scout, spelled S-C-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Personne qui pratique le scoutisme.
- 2D'une façon plus restreinte (dans certaines régions ou fédérations), peut désigner une section précise d'un mouvement scout : l'éclaireur.
- 3Désigne, en Amérique du Nord, un éclaireur.
- 4Observateur sportif, recruteur sportif.
- 5D'une manière générale : recruteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Autre caractéristique, un mépris sans borne pour le mensonge, les faux-semblants. Voilà ce qui ressort de questions posées à des éducateurs religieux ou laïques. En bref, comme disent les scouts, de « chics garçons, de chiques filles ».
Mais super, super catholique pratiquante : les scouts, les rallyes, les premières communions, les jupes bleu marine, les cols Claudine, les talons plats, les madeleines confectionnées pour les vendre à la kermesse de monsieur le curé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csout
- sccout
- scotu
- scoutt
- scuot
- socut
- sscout
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scout - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).