script
\skʁipt\
The verdict
“script” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,740. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,740
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-script · script · French
script · rank #9,740 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,740
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sabre
Nearest frequency peer: sabre (-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 « script »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réclament
réclament
90,264 corpus weight
- réflexe
réflexe
90,263 corpus weight
- sabre
sabre
90,262 corpus weight
- script
script
90,261 corpus weight
- selle
selle
90,260 corpus weight
- signatures
signatures
90,259 corpus weight
What this shows « script » 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 | script |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \skʁipt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « script »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around script (IPA \skʁipt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,740 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for script, with forms such as "csript", "sccript", and "scirpt". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "strip", "strict", "sprint", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is script, spelled S-C-R-I-P-T.
Definition
- 1Se 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how script appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’écriture script ou scripte.
Écrire en script.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csript
- sccript
- scirpt
- scrippt
- scriptt
- scritp
- scrpit
- scrript
- srcipt
- sscript
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of script - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).