shift
\ʃift\
The verdict
“shift” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,597
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Période de travail effectué par une équipe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shift · shift · French
shift · rank #32,597 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,597
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signait
Nearest frequency peer: signait (+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 « shift »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sega
sega
67,407 corpus weight
- serrent
serrent
67,406 corpus weight
- shift
shift
67,404 corpus weight
- signait
signait
67,403 corpus weight
- signera
signera
67,402 corpus weight
- sillons
sillons
67,401 corpus weight
What this shows « shift » 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 | shift |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃift\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shift »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around shift (IPA \ʃift\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,597 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Période de travail effectué par une équipe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for shift, with forms such as "hsift", "shfit", and "shhift". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sit", "soit", "suit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is shift, spelled S-H-I-F-T.
Definition
- 1Période de travail effectué par une équipe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shift appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La CGT entend maintenir « la pression » en poursuivant « la suppression des heures supplémentaires, des shifts (sessions de travail) exceptionnels ou deux shifts de nuit », ainsi que « le travail dans le strict respect de la sécurité », ce qui freine l’activité.
Deux : prêtez-moi votre livre de Foucault, je le passerai à ma belle-sœur qui travaille aux soins intensifs, elle va le lire après avoir terminé son shift de 48 heures…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsift
- shfit
- shhift
- shifft
- shiftt
- shitf
- sihft
- sshift
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shift - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).