shérif
\ʃe.ʁif\
The verdict
“shérif” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,798. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,798
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Équivalent anglo-saxon du juge de paix français
Corpus desk
Index FR-sherif · shérif · French
shérif · rank #14,798 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,798
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sexisme
Nearest frequency peer: sexisme (-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 « shérif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- serviteurs
serviteurs
85,205 corpus weight
- sexisme
sexisme
85,204 corpus weight
- shérif
shérif
85,203 corpus weight
- sitôt
sitôt
85,202 corpus weight
- soufflé
soufflé
85,201 corpus weight
- souffrait
souffrait
85,200 corpus weight
What this shows « shérif » 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 | shérif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃe.ʁif\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shérif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around shérif (IPA \ʃe.ʁif\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,798 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for shérif, with forms such as "hsérif", "sherif", and "shhérif". 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. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sherry", "sherpa", "sheriff", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is shérif, spelled S-H-É-R-I-F.
Definition
- 1Équivalent anglo-saxon du juge de paix français
- 2Officier municipal en Angleterre, chargé de différentes fonctions de police et de justice.
- 3Juge en Écosse, chef du tribunal du comté.
- 4Officier de police municipal du Far-West américain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shérif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il nomme les shérifs et les magistrats, ou juges de paix des comtés, parce que ce sont des officiers judiciaires.
Les joyeux enfants de la forêt […] délivrent un pauvre prisonnier et assassinent un shérif orgueilleux ; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsérif
- sherif
- shhérif
- shréif
- shéirf
- shérfi
- shériff
- shérrif
- sshérif
- séhrif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shérif - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).