shields
\ʃiːldz\
The verdict
“shields” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,609. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,609
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de shield.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shields · shields · French
shields · rank #47,609 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,609
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sherpa
Nearest frequency peer: sherpa (-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 « shields »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- Simona
Simona
52,390 corpus weight
What this shows « shields » 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 | shields |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃiːldz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shields »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around shields (IPA \ʃiːldz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,609 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de shield.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for shields, with forms such as "hsields", "sheilds", and "shhields". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "shield", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is shields, spelled S-H-I-E-L-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de shield.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsields
- sheilds
- shhields
- shiedls
- shieldds
- shieldss
- shiellds
- shielsd
- shileds
- sihelds
- sshields
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shields - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shields", 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).