shorts
\ʃɔʁt\
The verdict
“shorts” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,129. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,129
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de short.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shorts · shorts · French
shorts · rank #25,129 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,129
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Shelley
Nearest frequency peer: Shelley (-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 « shorts »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- serrures
serrures
74,875 corpus weight
- server
server
74,874 corpus weight
- Shelley
Shelley
74,873 corpus weight
- shorts
shorts
74,872 corpus weight
- signalent
signalent
74,871 corpus weight
- Snyder
Snyder
74,870 corpus weight
What this shows « shorts » 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 | shorts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shorts »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around shorts (IPA \ʃɔʁt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,129 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de short.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for shorts, with forms such as "hsorts", "shhorts", and "shorrts". 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, "sort", "sors", "shot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is shorts, spelled S-H-O-R-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de short.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsorts
- shhorts
- shorrts
- shorst
- shortss
- shortts
- shotrs
- shrots
- sohrts
- sshorts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shorts - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shorts", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).