Shane
The verdict
“Shane” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,574. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,574
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin, équivalent de Jean.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shane · Shane · French
Shane · rank #20,574 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,574
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH servitude
Nearest frequency peer: servitude (-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 « Shane »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- seizième
seizième
79,430 corpus weight
- semelle
semelle
79,429 corpus weight
- servitude
servitude
79,428 corpus weight
- Shane
Shane
79,427 corpus weight
- sil
sil
79,426 corpus weight
- skin
skin
79,425 corpus weight
What this shows « Shane » 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 | Shane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Shane »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Shane, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,574 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin, équivalent de Jean.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Shane, with forms such as "hsane", "sahne", and "shaen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "she", "stan", "Shaw", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Shane, spelled S-H-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin, équivalent de Jean.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Shane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Paora Toi Te Rangiuaia, James Webster et Shane Cahill effectuent un Haka devant la sculpture de Paora.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsane
- sahne
- shaen
- shanne
- shhane
- shnae
- sshane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Shane - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).