singer
\sɛ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“singer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,098. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,098
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Imiter une personne en la tournant en dérision.
Corpus desk
Index FR-singer · singer · French
singer · rank #22,098 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,098
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH simultanée
Nearest frequency peer: simultanée (-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 « singer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- seven
seven
77,907 corpus weight
- sillon
sillon
77,905 corpus weight
- simultanée
simultanée
77,904 corpus weight
- singer
singer
77,903 corpus weight
- sociable
sociable
77,902 corpus weight
- sociologues
sociologues
77,901 corpus weight
What this shows « singer » 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 | singer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « singer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around singer (IPA \sɛ̃.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,098 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for singer, with forms such as "isnger", "sinegr", and "singerr". 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, "songe", "Singh", "single", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is singer, spelled S-I-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Imiter une personne en la tournant en dérision.
- 2Simuler, feindre.
- 3Saupoudrer de farine des éléments que l’on a préalablement fait revenir dans de la matière grasse, farine que l’on laisse cuire légèrement avant de verser dessus un liquide de mouillement (lait, eau, bouillon) afin d’obtenir une sauce liée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how singer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Si, comme je l’espère, vous vous poussez à la cour et recouvrez vos biens, donnez-moi pour retraite le gouvernement de votre garde-robe, dit-il en singeant la courbette d’un solliciteur devant le Baron transformé. »
Elles pouffaient lorsqu’Yves et José singeaient les chanteuses, à l’église autour de l’harmonium, avec leur bouche en cul de poule.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isnger
- sinegr
- singerr
- singger
- singre
- sinnger
- sniger
- ssinger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of singer - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "singer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).