Sheridan

name

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The verdict

“Sheridan” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,190. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,190
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille irlandais, porté notamment par le dramaturge Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sheridan · Sheridan · French

Sheridan · rank #32,190 · 12 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,190
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sheikh

Nearest frequency peer: sheikh (-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 « Sheridan »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Sheridan » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Sheridan
PropertyValue
HeadwordSheridan
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#32,190
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sheridan »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Sheridanse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sheikh » (#32,189), « shots » (#32,191), « Shawinigan » (#32,188). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Sheridan » est au #32,190. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around Sheridan, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,190 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille irlandais, porté notamment par le dramaturge Richard Brinsley Sheridan.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sheridan, with forms such as "hseridan", "sehridan", and "sheirdan". 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Sheridan, spelled S-H-E-R-I-D-A-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille irlandais, porté notamment par le dramaturge Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Sheridan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On aurait probablement beaucoup réjoui le spirituel et moqueur Sheridan, si on lui avait appris qu’il était un antipuritain.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hseridan
  • sehridan
  • sheirdan
  • sherdian
  • sheriadn
  • sheridann
  • sheriddan
  • sheridna
  • sherridan
  • shheridan
  • shreidan
  • ssheridan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sheridan - 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.

hseridan2sehridan2sheirdan2sherdian2sheriadn2sheridann1sheriddan1sheridna2
Edit distance from "Sheridan"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Sheridan"?
"Sheridan" is spelled S-H-E-R-I-D-A-N.
What does "Sheridan" mean?
As a proper noun, "Sheridan" means: Nom de famille irlandais, porté notamment par le dramaturge Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
What are common misspellings of "Sheridan"?
Common misspellings include "hseridan", "sehridan", "sheirdan", "sherdian", "sheriadn". The correct spelling is "Sheridan".
What language does "Sheridan" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sheridan", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Schumann#32,181southern#32,199schistes#32,180résoudra#32,172

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Séverine12 variantstartiner12 variantsreçurent12 variantsrefusons12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list