shirt
\ˈʃɝt\
The verdict
“shirt” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,189
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chemise, maillot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shirt · shirt · French
shirt · rank #5,189 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,189
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH septième
Nearest frequency peer: septième (-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 « shirt »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saura
saura
94,815 corpus weight
- saut
saut
94,814 corpus weight
- septième
septième
94,813 corpus weight
- shirt
shirt
94,812 corpus weight
- souhaitent
souhaitent
94,811 corpus weight
- spectateurs
spectateurs
94,810 corpus weight
What this shows « shirt » 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 | shirt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈʃɝt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shirt »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around shirt (IPA \ˈʃɝt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,189 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for shirt, with forms such as "hsirt", "shhirt", and "shirrt". 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, "sir", "sit", "soit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is shirt, spelled S-H-I-R-T.
Definition
- 1Chemise, maillot.
- 2Chemise d’homme.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsirt
- shhirt
- shirrt
- shirtt
- shitr
- shrit
- sihrt
- sshirt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shirt - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shirt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).