shampoing
\ʃɑ̃.pwɛ̃\
The verdict
“shampoing” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,875
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de shampooing, lavage des cheveux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shampoing · shampoing · French
shampoing · rank #18,875 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,875
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sereinement
Nearest frequency peer: sereinement (-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 « shampoing »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Saoudien
Saoudien
81,129 corpus weight
- saturé
saturé
81,128 corpus weight
- sereinement
sereinement
81,127 corpus weight
- shampoing
shampoing
81,126 corpus weight
- skis
skis
81,125 corpus weight
- solitaires
solitaires
81,124 corpus weight
What this shows « shampoing » 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 | shampoing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.pwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shampoing »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around shampoing (IPA \ʃɑ̃.pwɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,875 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for shampoing, with forms such as "hsampoing", "sahmpoing", and "shammpoing". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "shampooing", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is shampoing, spelled S-H-A-M-P-O-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de shampooing, lavage des cheveux.
- 2Variante orthographique de shampooing (« produit qui sert au lavage des cheveux »).
- 3Fellation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shampoing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’était fait un shampoing et ses cheveux étaient tout ébouriffés.
Les shampoings utilisés à sec sont à base de terre de Sommières ou terre à foulon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsampoing
- sahmpoing
- shammpoing
- shamoping
- shampiong
- shampoign
- shampoingg
- shampoinng
- shamponig
- shamppoing
- shapmoing
- shhampoing
- shmapoing
- sshampoing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shampoing - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).