ska
\ska\
The verdict
“ska” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,667) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,667
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical jamaïcain avec des influences du mento et de R&B apparu à la fin des années 1950.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ska · ska · French
ska · rank #43,667 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,667
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH simplifiant
Nearest frequency peer: simplifiant (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ska »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- sidérurgique
sidérurgique
56,337 corpus weight
- Sigmund
Sigmund
56,336 corpus weight
- simplifiant
simplifiant
56,335 corpus weight
- ska
ska
56,334 corpus weight
- sociopathe
sociopathe
56,332 corpus weight
- sollicitant
sollicitant
56,331 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ska » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | ska |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ska\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ska »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ska is neighbouring look-alikes ("st", "su", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ska\. Frequency #43,667 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Genre musical jamaïcain avec des influences du mento et de R&B apparu à la fin des années 1950.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ska in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "su", "so", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ska, spelled S-K-A.
Definition
- 1Genre musical jamaïcain avec des influences du mento et de R&B apparu à la fin des années 1950.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ska appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En seconde partie de soirée, c’est le groupe Nadamas qui présentera sa musique festive et populaire, qui puise autant dans le bal musette que dans le ragga, le ska ou même le klezmer.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).