shell
\ʃɛl\
The verdict
“shell” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,066
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interface utilisateur d’un système d’exploitation, principalement destinée à lancer d’autres programmes et gérer leurs interactions. Le terme est généralement utilisé pour parler d’une interface en...
Corpus desk
Index FR-shell · shell · French
shell · rank #18,066 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,066
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sereine
Nearest frequency peer: sereine (-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 « shell »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- secoué
secoué
81,938 corpus weight
- security
security
81,937 corpus weight
- sereine
sereine
81,936 corpus weight
- shell
shell
81,935 corpus weight
- signant
signant
81,934 corpus weight
- signent
signent
81,933 corpus weight
What this shows « shell » 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 | shell |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shell »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around shell (IPA \ʃɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,066 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Interface utilisateur d’un système d’exploitation, principalement destinée à lancer d’autres programmes et gérer leurs interactions. Le terme est généralement utilisé pour parler d’une interface en...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for shell, with forms such as "hsell", "sehll", and "shel". 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, "small", "still", "steel", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 shell, spelled S-H-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1Interface utilisateur d’un système d’exploitation, principalement destinée à lancer d’autres programmes et gérer leurs interactions. Le terme est généralement utilisé pour parler d’une interface en ligne de commande. La norme ISO/IEC 2382-28:1995 donne les traductions « coquille » et « système essentiel ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shell appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Csh, Ksh et Bash sont des shells UNIX.
GNOME Shell.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsell
- sehll
- shel
- shhell
- shlel
- sshell
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shell - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).