simba
\sim.ba\
The verdict
“simba” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,007. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,007
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de himba ; langue bantoue parlée au Gabon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-simba · simba · French
simba · rank #41,007 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,007
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH siégeait
Nearest frequency peer: siégeait (+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 « simba »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sensorielles
sensorielles
58,998 corpus weight
- serrez
serrez
58,997 corpus weight
- shut
shut
58,996 corpus weight
- simba
simba
58,994 corpus weight
- siégeait
siégeait
58,993 corpus weight
- slovaques
slovaques
58,991 corpus weight
What this shows « simba » 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 | simba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sim.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « simba »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around simba (IPA \sim.ba\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,007 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Synonyme de himba ; langue bantoue parlée au Gabon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for simba, with forms such as "ismba", "sibma", and "simab". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Sims", "soma", "sympa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is simba, spelled S-I-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de himba ; langue bantoue parlée au Gabon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ismba
- sibma
- simab
- simbba
- simmba
- smiba
- ssimba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of simba - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).