should
\ʃʊd\
The verdict
“should” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,349. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,349
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit de shall.
Corpus desk
Index FR-should · should · French
should · rank #28,349 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,349
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sharks
Nearest frequency peer: sharks (-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 « should »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Scrabble
Scrabble
71,655 corpus weight
- sensuel
sensuel
71,654 corpus weight
- sharks
sharks
71,653 corpus weight
- should
should
71,652 corpus weight
- sifflé
sifflé
71,651 corpus weight
- sise
sise
71,650 corpus weight
What this shows « should » 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 | should |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃʊd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « should »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around should (IPA \ʃʊd\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,349 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for should, with forms such as "hsould", "shhould", and "sholud". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "soul", "sold", "sourd", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is should, spelled S-H-O-U-L-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit de shall.
- 2Verbe auxiliaire exprimant le conditionnel.
- 3Devrait, faire mieux de. Verbe auxiliaire exprimant l’obligation, la recommandation.
- 4Devrait. Verbe auxiliaire exprimant l’attente, l’expectative.
- 5Verbe auxiliaire servant à adoucir une requête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how should appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She realized that she should have to do most of her farm work before sunrise.
If he should leave his father, his father would die.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsould
- shhould
- sholud
- shoudl
- shouldd
- shoulld
- shuold
- sohuld
- sshould
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of should - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "should", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).