shelter
\ˈʃɛltə\
The verdict
“shelter” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,450. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,450
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abri, gîte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shelter · shelter · French
shelter · rank #46,450 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,450
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sexagénaire
Nearest frequency peer: sexagénaire (-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 « shelter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- seigneurial
seigneurial
53,555 corpus weight
- sexagénaire
sexagénaire
53,552 corpus weight
- shelter
shelter
53,551 corpus weight
- showbiz
showbiz
53,550 corpus weight
- simply
simply
53,549 corpus weight
- simultanés
simultanés
53,548 corpus weight
What this shows « shelter » 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 | shelter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈʃɛltə\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shelter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around shelter (IPA \ˈʃɛltə\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,450 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for shelter, with forms such as "hselter", "sehlter", and "sheletr". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "shooter", "seller", "Shelley", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is shelter, spelled S-H-E-L-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Abri, gîte.
- 2Refuge, abri.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shelter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hselter
- sehlter
- sheletr
- shellter
- shelterr
- sheltre
- sheltter
- shetler
- shhelter
- shleter
- sshelter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shelter - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shelter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).