shopping

\ʃɔ.piŋ\

/\ʃɔ.piŋ\/ noun

The verdict

“shopping” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,161. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,161
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’aller dans les magasins pour y effectuer des achats et observer les différents produits vendus.

Corpus desk

Index FR-shopping · shopping · French

shopping · rank #8,161 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,161
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH segment

Nearest frequency peer: segment (-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 « shopping »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « shopping » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

shopping vs shooting
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for shopping
PropertyValue
Headwordshopping
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɔ.piŋ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,161
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shopping »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.shoppingse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « segment » (#8,160), « space » (#8,162), « school » (#8,159). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « shopping » est au #8,161. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around shopping (IPA \ʃɔ.piŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,161 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action d’aller dans les magasins pour y effectuer des achats et observer les différents produits vendus.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for shopping, with forms such as "hsopping", "shhopping", and "shoping". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "shooting", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is shopping, spelled S-H-O-P-P-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’aller dans les magasins pour y effectuer des achats et observer les différents produits vendus.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how shopping appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Elle fréquentait les cocktails, skiait et s'adonnait au shopping de luxe, et elle n'était pas du style à traverser le pays pour venir au chevet d'une sœur aînée atteinte du sida.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hsopping
  • shhopping
  • shoping
  • shopipng
  • shoppign
  • shoppingg
  • shoppinng
  • shoppnig
  • shpoping
  • sohpping
  • sshopping

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shopping - 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.

hsopping2shhopping1shoping1shopipng2shoppign2shoppingg1shoppinng1shoppnig2
Edit distance from "shopping"

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 "shopping"?
"shopping" is spelled S-H-O-P-P-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɔ.piŋ\.
What does "shopping" mean?
As a noun, "shopping" means: Action d’aller dans les magasins pour y effectuer des achats et observer les différents produits vendus.
What words are commonly confused with "shopping"?
"shopping" is commonly confused with "shooting". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "shopping"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "shopping" is \ʃɔ.piŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "shopping" come from?
"shopping" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shopping", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list