Shaw
The verdict
“Shaw” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,152. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,152
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shaw · Shaw · French
Shaw · rank #14,152 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,152
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serena
Nearest frequency peer: serena (-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 « Shaw »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sceptique
sceptique
85,852 corpus weight
- scorpion
scorpion
85,851 corpus weight
- serena
serena
85,850 corpus weight
- Shaw
Shaw
85,849 corpus weight
- Shoah
Shoah
85,848 corpus weight
- signifiant
signifiant
85,847 corpus weight
What this shows « Shaw » 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 | Shaw |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Shaw »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Shaw, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,152 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Shaw, with forms such as "hsaw", "sahw", and "shaww". 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, "she", "sia", "sow", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Shaw, spelled S-H-A-W.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Shaw appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
George Bernard Shaw.
Winnie Shaw.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsaw
- sahw
- shaww
- shhaw
- shwa
- sshaw
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Shaw - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).