silo

\si.lo\

/\si.lo\/ noun

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The verdict

“silo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,970. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,970
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cavité pratiquée dans la terre pour y conserver du blé, des racines, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-silo · silo · French

silo · rank #27,970 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,970
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH signalées

Nearest frequency peer: signalées (-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 « silo »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « silo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

silo vs so
50% similar
silo vs SL
0% similar
silo vs six
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for silo
PropertyValue
Headwordsilo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.lo\
Letters4
Frequency rank#27,970
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « silo »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).silose place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « signalées » (#27,969), « siri » (#27,971), « sifflets » (#27,968). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « silo » est au #27,970. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around silo (IPA \si.lo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,970 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for silo, with forms such as "islo", "sillo", and "siol". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SL", "six", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 silo, spelled S-I-L-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cavité pratiquée dans la terre pour y conserver du blé, des racines, etc.
  2. 2
    Réservoir hermétiquement clos construit au-dessus du sol où l’on entrepose les produits agricoles pour les conserver.
  3. 3
    Réservoir similaire servant à entreposer un grand nombre de produits industriels (poudres, produit en granule…).
  4. 4
    Site souterrain où sont entreposés des missiles en position de lancement
  5. 5
    Regroupement d’informations, strictement isolé d’autres regroupements similaires, et empêchant la mise en relation des informations ainsi séparées.
  6. 6
    Partie au contenu homogène par rapport au reste.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how silo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’homme d’Afrique meurt de faim sur son silo dévasté, il meurt et ne se plaint pas.
  2. Les cadres administratifs et sociaux étaient détruits, les kasbas et les gottas (fermes) en ruines, les champs incultes, les silos vides, les marchés abandonnés, les pistes désertes.

This word in other languages

silo(English)silo(Español)Silo(Deutsch)silo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • islo
  • sillo
  • siol
  • slio
  • ssilo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silo - 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.

islo2sillo1siol2slio2ssilo1
Edit distance from "silo"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "silo"?
"silo" is spelled S-I-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is \si.lo\.
What does "silo" mean?
As a noun, "silo" means: Cavité pratiquée dans la terre pour y conserver du blé, des racines, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "silo"?
"silo" is commonly confused with "so", "SL", "six". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "silo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "silo" is \si.lo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "silo" come from?
"silo" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "silo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

siri#27,971RGPD#27,946trie#28,000used#28,007

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

addis5 variantsmana5 variantscats5 variantscopa5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list