sherpa
\ʃɛʁ.pa\
The verdict
“sherpa” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,608
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Guide de montagne dans l’Himalaya.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sherpa · sherpa · French
sherpa · rank #47,608 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,608
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serviraient
Nearest frequency peer: serviraient (-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 « sherpa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- senat
senat
52,396 corpus weight
- septentrion
septentrion
52,395 corpus weight
- serviraient
serviraient
52,394 corpus weight
- sherpa
sherpa
52,393 corpus weight
- shields
shields
52,392 corpus weight
- showcase
showcase
52,391 corpus weight
What this shows « sherpa » 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 | sherpa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.pa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sherpa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sherpa (IPA \ʃɛʁ.pa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,608 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sherpa, with forms such as "hserpa", "sehrpa", and "shepra". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "sierra", "sherry", "sera", 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sherpa, spelled S-H-E-R-P-A.
Definition
- 1Guide de montagne dans l’Himalaya.
- 2Porteur, serviteur qui porte les affaires de quelqu'un d'autre.
- 3Personne qui aide un homme politique.
- 4Délégation de députés européens chargé de se rendre aux consultations au sein du Conseil ou auprès d'autres institutions de l'Union européenne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sherpa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1953, le Britannique Edmund Hillary et le sherpa Tensing triomphent de l’Everest.
Le collaborateur de M. Sarkozy n’a toutefois pas précisé quels étaient les postes qui avaient été proposés à Mᵐᵉ Lauvergeon, qui fut à l’Élysée l’un des « sherpas » de François Mitterrand pour les grands rendez-vous internationaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hserpa
- sehrpa
- shepra
- sherap
- sherppa
- sherrpa
- shherpa
- shrepa
- ssherpa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sherpa - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).