siri

noun

The verdict

“siri” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,971. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,971
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue afro-asiatique parlé dans l’état de Bauchi au Nigéria.

Corpus desk

Index FR-siri · siri · French

siri · rank #27,971 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,971
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH silo

Nearest frequency peer: silo (-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 « siri »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « siri » 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).

siri vs sr
50% similar
siri vs sur
50% similar
siri vs six
50% similar

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

Key facts for siri
PropertyValue
Headwordsiri
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#27,971
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « siri »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sirise place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « silo » (#27,970), « siégeant » (#27,972), « signalées » (#27,969). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « siri » est au #27,971. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around siri, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,971 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langue afro-asiatique parlé dans l’état de Bauchi au Nigéria.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for siri, with forms such as "isri", "siir", and "sirri". 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, "sr", "sur", "six", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is siri, spelled S-I-R-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Langue afro-asiatique parlé dans l’état de Bauchi au Nigéria.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Mais il y a deux langues qui montrent un autre parallélisme, notamment entre la deuxième personne du féminin (singulier) et la deuxième personne du pluriel : le kulere (Jungraithmayr 1970) et le siri (Skinner 1991).

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • isri
  • siir
  • sirri
  • srii
  • ssiri

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

isri2siir2sirri1srii2ssiri1
Edit distance from "siri"

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 "siri"?
"siri" is spelled S-I-R-I.
What does "siri" mean?
As a noun, "siri" means: Langue afro-asiatique parlé dans l’état de Bauchi au Nigéria.
What words are commonly confused with "siri"?
"siri" is commonly confused with "sr", "sur", "six". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "siri" come from?
"siri" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list