script

/\skʁipt\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,740

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

script is anFrenchadj. It means: Se dit de l’écriture manuscrite où les lettres ne sont pas liées les unes aux autres et dont le tracé correspond approximativement à celui des caractères typographiques. Pronounced \skʁipt\. It ranks #9,740 in French word frequency. Often confused with strip and strict.

Key facts for script
PropertyValue
Headwordscript
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\skʁipt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#9,740
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of script in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for script is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \skʁipt\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,740 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Se dit de l’écriture manuscrite où les lettres ne sont pas liées les unes aux autres et dont le tracé correspond approximativement à celui des caractères typographiques.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for script, with forms such as "csript", "sccript", and "scirpt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "strip", "strict", "sprint", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is script, spelled S-C-R-I-P-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se dit de l’écriture manuscrite où les lettres ne sont pas liées les unes aux autres et dont le tracé correspond approximativement à celui des caractères typographiques.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: csript,sccript,scirpt,scrippt,scriptt,scritp,scrpit,scrript,srcipt,sscript

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for script

Misspelling Variants of "script"

csript6sccript7scirpt6scrippt7scriptt7scritp6scrpit6scrript7
Misspelling Variants of "script"

Frequency rank: #9,740 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "script"?
"script" is spelled S-C-R-I-P-T. The IPA pronunciation is \skʁipt\.
What does "script" mean?
As an adj, "script" means: Se dit de l’écriture manuscrite où les lettres ne sont pas liées les unes aux autres et dont le tracé correspond approximativement à celui des caractères typographiques.
What words are commonly confused with "script"?
"script" is commonly confused with "strip", "strict", "sprint". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "script"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "script" is \skʁipt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "script" come from?
"script" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.