shin
\ʃin\
The verdict
“shin” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,166. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,166
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre orthographe de chine (ש), vingt-et-unième lettre de l’alphabet hébreu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shin · shin · French
shin · rank #21,166 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,166
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scotch
Nearest frequency peer: scotch (-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 « shin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Sammy
Sammy
78,838 corpus weight
- Sasha
Sasha
78,837 corpus weight
- scotch
scotch
78,836 corpus weight
- shin
shin
78,835 corpus weight
- siffler
siffler
78,834 corpus weight
- silicon
silicon
78,832 corpus weight
What this shows « shin » 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 | shin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃin\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around shin (IPA \ʃin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,166 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Autre orthographe de chine (ש), vingt-et-unième lettre de l’alphabet hébreu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for shin, with forms such as "hsin", "shhin", and "shinn". 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, "si", "sn", "son", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is shin, spelled S-H-I-N.
Definition
- 1Autre orthographe de chine (ש), vingt-et-unième lettre de l’alphabet hébreu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsin
- shhin
- shinn
- shni
- sihn
- sshin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shin - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "shin", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).