sharks
\ˈʃɑɹks\
The verdict
“sharks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,348. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,348
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de shark.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sharks · sharks · French
sharks · rank #28,348 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,348
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sensuel
Nearest frequency peer: sensuel (-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 « sharks »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- scierie
scierie
71,656 corpus weight
- Scrabble
Scrabble
71,655 corpus weight
- sensuel
sensuel
71,654 corpus weight
- sharks
sharks
71,653 corpus weight
- should
should
71,652 corpus weight
- sifflé
sifflé
71,651 corpus weight
What this shows « sharks » 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 | sharks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈʃɑɹks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sharks »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sharks (IPA \ˈʃɑɹks\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,348 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de shark.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sharks, with forms such as "hsarks", "sahrks", and "shakrs". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "stars", "stark", "sharp", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sharks, spelled S-H-A-R-K-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de shark.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsarks
- sahrks
- shakrs
- sharkks
- sharkss
- sharrks
- sharsk
- shharks
- shraks
- ssharks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sharks - 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).