Simard
\si.maʁ\
The verdict
“Simard” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,373. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,373
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-simard · Simard · French
Simard · rank #30,373 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,373
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH silos
Nearest frequency peer: silos (-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 « Simard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Siegfried
Siegfried
69,631 corpus weight
- signa
signa
69,630 corpus weight
- silos
silos
69,629 corpus weight
- Simard
Simard
69,628 corpus weight
- skieurs
skieurs
69,626 corpus weight
- skins
skins
69,625 corpus weight
What this shows « Simard » 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 | Simard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \si.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Simard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Simard (IPA \si.maʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,373 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Simard, with forms such as "ismard", "siamrd", and "simadr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "smart", "Savard", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Simard, spelled S-I-M-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Simard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La famille DE SIMARD, dont le nom se trouve aussi orthographié dans les vieilles chartes SIMART et SYMARD, eut pour berceau la seigneurie de Simard, située entre Mervans et Louhans, dans l’ancienne Bresse Châlonnaise ; Simard faisait partie, avant 1791, des diocèse et bailliage de Châlon ; dans ses dépendances se trouvait le château de Bessandrey, depuis…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ismard
- siamrd
- simadr
- simardd
- simarrd
- simmard
- simrad
- smiard
- ssimard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Simard - 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
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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).