scribe
\skʁib\
The verdict
“scribe” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,973. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,973
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Copiste, homme employé à faire des écritures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scribe · scribe · French
scribe · rank #29,973 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,973
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scorpions
Nearest frequency peer: scorpions (-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 « scribe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sarcophage
sarcophage
70,031 corpus weight
- saw
saw
70,030 corpus weight
- scorpions
scorpions
70,029 corpus weight
- scribe
scribe
70,028 corpus weight
- sied
sied
70,026 corpus weight
- sitting
sitting
70,025 corpus weight
What this shows « scribe » 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 | scribe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skʁib\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « scribe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around scribe (IPA \skʁib\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,973 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for scribe, with forms such as "csribe", "sccribe", and "scirbe". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Syrie", "serie", "serbe", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is scribe, spelled S-C-R-I-B-E.
Definition
- 1Copiste, homme employé à faire des écritures.
- 2Docteur qui enseignait la loi de Moïse au peuple et qui l’interprétait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scribe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or l’Empereur laissait beaucoup à faire aux scribes ; il était leur désolation. Son écriture composait de véritables hiéroglyphes ; elle était illisible souvent pour lui-même.
Chez les Juifs on donnait ce nom à des espèces de docteurs qui se divisaient en trois classes : les scribes du sanhédrin, qui n’étaient que des greffiers de ce tribunal; les scribes de la loi, dont les décisions étaient exécutées à l’égal de la loi elle-même, et les scribes du peuple, véritables magistrats prononçant des sentences dans les affaires privée…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csribe
- sccribe
- scirbe
- scrbie
- scribbe
- scrieb
- scrribe
- srcibe
- sscribe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scribe - 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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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).