short
\ʃɔʁt\
The verdict
“short” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,499. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,499
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Culotte courte, ne couvrant que le haut des cuisses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-short · short · French
short · rank #7,499 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,499
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serrer
Nearest frequency peer: serrer (-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 « short »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- routière
routière
92,506 corpus weight
- scénarios
scénarios
92,505 corpus weight
- semblables
semblables
92,504 corpus weight
- serrer
serrer
92,503 corpus weight
- short
short
92,502 corpus weight
- tantôt
tantôt
92,500 corpus weight
What this shows « short » 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 | short |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « short »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around short (IPA \ʃɔʁt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,499 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 short, with forms such as "hsort", "shhort", and "shorrt". 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, "sot", "sont", "soit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 short, spelled S-H-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Culotte courte, ne couvrant que le haut des cuisses.
- 2Vente à découvert.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how short appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tenue idéale pour un auto-stoppeur est le short blanc bien repassé, la chemise impeccable, les chaussettes blanches et les chaussures de tennis.
Dès qu’il fait beau, il porte des pantalons courts, de ces shorts anciens de boy-scout, insolites pour un homme presque chauve à la peau vieillie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsort
- shhort
- shorrt
- shortt
- shotr
- shrot
- sohrt
- sshort
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of short - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).