Shoah
\ʃo.a\
The verdict
“Shoah” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,153. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,153
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Génocide des Juifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shoah · Shoah · French
Shoah · rank #14,153 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,153
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Shaw
Nearest frequency peer: Shaw (-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 « Shoah »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- scorpion
scorpion
85,851 corpus weight
- serena
serena
85,850 corpus weight
- Shaw
Shaw
85,849 corpus weight
- Shoah
Shoah
85,848 corpus weight
- signifiant
signifiant
85,847 corpus weight
- significati…
significativement
85,846 corpus weight
What this shows « Shoah » 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 | Shoah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃo.a\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Shoah »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Shoah (IPA \ʃo.a\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,153 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Génocide des Juifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Shoah, with forms such as "hsoah", "shaoh", and "shhoah". 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, "show", "shop", "shot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Shoah, spelled S-H-O-A-H.
Definition
- 1Génocide des Juifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Shoah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mot « Shoah » se révéla à moi une nuit comme une évidence, parce que, n’entendant pas l’hébreu, je n’en comprenais pas le sens, ce qui était encore une façon de ne pas nommer. Mais pour ceux qui parlent l’hébreu, « Shoah » est tout aussi inadéquat. Le terme apparaît dans la Bible à plusieurs reprises. Il signifie « catastrophe », « destruction », « ané…
Le film a été d’emblée éponyme, on s’est mis partout à dire « la Shoah », ce nom a supplanté « Holocauste », « génocide », « Solution finale », j’en passe. Ils sont tous des noms communs. « Shoah » est maintenant un nom propre, le seul donc, et comme tel intraduisible.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsoah
- shaoh
- shhoah
- shoahh
- shoha
- sohah
- sshoah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Shoah - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "Shoah"?
What does "Shoah" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "Shoah"?
How do you pronounce "Shoah"?
What language does "Shoah" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Shoah", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).