shopping
\ʃɔ.piŋ\
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
- sanitaires
sanitaires
91,843 corpus weight
- school
school
91,842 corpus weight
- segment
segment
91,841 corpus weight
- shopping
shopping
91,840 corpus weight
- space
space
91,839 corpus weight
- spirituelle
spirituelle
91,838 corpus weight
What this shows « shopping » 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 | shopping |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɔ.piŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shopping »
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
- 1Action d’aller dans les magasins pour y effectuer des achats et observer les différents produits vendus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shopping appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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 "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).