Sikhs
\siːks\
The verdict
“Sikhs” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,619
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de Sikh.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sikhs · Sikhs · French
Sikhs · rank #42,619 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,619
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Shinji
Nearest frequency peer: Shinji (-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 « Sikhs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- servirent
servirent
57,385 corpus weight
- shades
shades
57,384 corpus weight
- Shinji
Shinji
57,383 corpus weight
- Sikhs
Sikhs
57,382 corpus weight
- Singapore
Singapore
57,381 corpus weight
- Sodome
Sodome
57,379 corpus weight
What this shows « Sikhs » 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 | Sikhs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \siːks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sikhs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Sikhs (IPA \siːks\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,619 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de Sikh.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sikhs, with forms such as "iskhs", "sihks", and "sikhhs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "sis", "skis", "Sims", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Sikhs, spelled S-I-K-H-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de Sikh.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iskhs
- sihks
- sikhhs
- sikhss
- sikkhs
- siksh
- skihs
- ssikhs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sikhs - 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 "Sikhs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).