shan
\ʃan\
The verdict
“shan” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,590. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,590
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue de la famille tai-kadai parlée en Birmanie, en Chine et en Thaïlande par les Shans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shan · shan · French
shan · rank #36,590 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,590
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sevran
Nearest frequency peer: Sevran (-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 « shan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- scala
scala
63,414 corpus weight
- serrait
serrait
63,413 corpus weight
- Sevran
Sevran
63,412 corpus weight
- shan
shan
63,411 corpus weight
- simili
simili
63,410 corpus weight
- simultanées
simultanées
63,409 corpus weight
What this shows « shan » 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 | shan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃan\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around shan (IPA \ʃan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,590 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langue de la famille tai-kadai parlée en Birmanie, en Chine et en Thaïlande par les Shans.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for shan, with forms such as "hsan", "sahn", and "shann". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sn", "son", "sun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is shan, spelled S-H-A-N.
Definition
- 1Langue de la famille tai-kadai parlée en Birmanie, en Chine et en Thaïlande par les Shans.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsan
- sahn
- shann
- shhan
- shna
- sshan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shan - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shan", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).