silas
\si.la\
The verdict
“silas” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,539. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,539
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de siler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-silas · silas · French
silas · rank #39,539 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,539
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sigismond
Nearest frequency peer: Sigismond (-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 « silas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Shimon
Shimon
60,464 corpus weight
- Sigismond
Sigismond
60,463 corpus weight
- silas
silas
60,462 corpus weight
- siroter
siroter
60,461 corpus weight
- smoothie
smoothie
60,460 corpus weight
- soma
soma
60,459 corpus weight
What this shows « silas » 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 | silas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « silas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around silas (IPA \si.la\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,539 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de siler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for silas, with forms such as "islas", "sials", and "silass". 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, "sis", "sols", "Sims", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 silas, spelled S-I-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de siler.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- islas
- sials
- silass
- sillas
- silsa
- slias
- ssilas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silas - 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 "silas", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).