shogun
\ʃɔ.ɡun\
The verdict
“shogun” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,536. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,536
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chef militaire et civil du Japon, à partir de 1192 jusqu’en 1868, le commandement du pays restant à la charge de l’empereur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shogun · shogun · French
shogun · rank #38,536 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,536
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shelly
Nearest frequency peer: shelly (-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 « shogun »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saladin
saladin
61,469 corpus weight
- shelly
shelly
61,466 corpus weight
- shogun
shogun
61,465 corpus weight
- solfège
solfège
61,463 corpus weight
- Sologne
Sologne
61,462 corpus weight
- Songs
Songs
61,461 corpus weight
What this shows « shogun » 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 | shogun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɔ.ɡun\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shogun »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around shogun (IPA \ʃɔ.ɡun\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,536 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chef militaire et civil du Japon, à partir de 1192 jusqu’en 1868, le commandement du pays restant à la charge de l’empereur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for shogun, with forms such as "hsogun", "shgoun", and "shhogun". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "slogan", "Shaun", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 shogun, spelled S-H-O-G-U-N.
Definition
- 1Chef militaire et civil du Japon, à partir de 1192 jusqu’en 1868, le commandement du pays restant à la charge de l’empereur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shogun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un de ses descendants, Sujin (97-30 av. J.-C.), s’occupa le premier du développement de l’agriculture et constitua un rudiment de marine. Il eut quelques relations avec la Corée et divisa l’empire, encore fort mal équilibré, en quatre commandements militaires, à la tête desquels il placa un shogun.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsogun
- shgoun
- shhogun
- shoggun
- shognu
- shogunn
- shougn
- sohgun
- sshogun
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shogun - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).