Shawinigan
\ʃa.wi.ni.ɡan\
The verdict
“Shawinigan” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,188
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la région de Mauricie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shawinigan · Shawinigan · French
Shawinigan · rank #32,188 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,188
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Shakira
Nearest frequency peer: Shakira (-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 « Shawinigan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Senghor
Senghor
67,815 corpus weight
- Shakira
Shakira
67,814 corpus weight
- Shawinigan
Shawinigan
67,813 corpus weight
- sheikh
sheikh
67,812 corpus weight
- Sheridan
Sheridan
67,811 corpus weight
- shots
shots
67,810 corpus weight
What this shows « Shawinigan » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shawinigan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.wi.ni.ɡan\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #32,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Shawinigan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Shawinigan (IPA \ʃa.wi.ni.ɡan\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,188 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Shawinigan, with forms such as "hsawinigan", "sahwinigan", and "shaiwnigan". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Shawinigan, spelled S-H-A-W-I-N-I-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la région de Mauricie.
- 2Rivière canadienne située dans la province de Québec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Shawinigan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bar de l'hôtel était sordide, comme un cocktail lounge dans un film de série C qui se déroule dans une banlieue de Dayton, en Ohio, ou de Shawinigan, au Québec.
Au séminaire Sainte-Marie de Shawinigan, ce sera la même chose. Son directeur ajoute que cette année, il y aura une raison de plus de maintenir cette pratique: marquer une pause dans l'application des restrictions sanitaires, surtout du port du masque, dans les murs de l'établissement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsawinigan
- sahwinigan
- shaiwnigan
- shawiingan
- shawingian
- shawiniagn
- shawinigann
- shawiniggan
- shawinigna
- shawinnigan
- shawniigan
- shawwinigan
- shhawinigan
- shwainigan
- sshawinigan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Shawinigan - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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