select
\se.lɛkt\
The verdict
“select” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,556. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,556
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Snob, élitiste, qui discrimine ses membres en parlant d’un club ou d’un cercle. Sélect.
Corpus desk
Index FR-select · select · French
select · rank #37,556 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,556
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scolarisé
Nearest frequency peer: scolarisé (-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 « select »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saxonnes
saxonnes
62,448 corpus weight
- Scipion
Scipion
62,447 corpus weight
- scolarisé
scolarisé
62,446 corpus weight
- select
select
62,445 corpus weight
- Sheffield
Sheffield
62,444 corpus weight
- sheriff
sheriff
62,442 corpus weight
What this shows « select » 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 | select |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.lɛkt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « select »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around select (IPA \se.lɛkt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,556 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Snob, élitiste, qui discrimine ses membres en parlant d’un club ou d’un cercle. Sélect.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for select, with forms such as "eslect", "seelct", and "selcet". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Selena", "silent", "sèment", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is select, spelled S-E-L-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1Snob, élitiste, qui discrimine ses membres en parlant d’un club ou d’un cercle. Sélect.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how select appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’arrivai dans la maison au moment où les Charrigaud avaient résolu qu’ils donneraient, enfin, ce dîner… Non pas un de ces dîners intimes, gais et sans pose, comme ils en avaient l’habitude et qui, durant quelques années, avaient fait leur maison si charmante, mais un dîner vraiment élégant, vraiment solennel, un dîner guindé et glacé, un dîner select où…
On donnait des concerts dans la salle du Casino, dont le Journal de Bourbonne ne manquait pas de parler : « La salle était remplie de la société la plus select. […] »
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eslect
- seelct
- selcet
- selecct
- selectt
- seletc
- sellect
- sleect
- sselect
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of select - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).