sketch
\skɛtʃ\
The verdict
“sketch” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,055. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,055
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une petite comédie destinée spécialement à faire rire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sketch · sketch · French
sketch · rank #12,055 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,055
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH situer
Nearest frequency peer: situer (-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 « sketch »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- signataires
signataires
87,949 corpus weight
- silencieuse
silencieuse
87,948 corpus weight
- situer
situer
87,947 corpus weight
- sketch
sketch
87,946 corpus weight
- slip
slip
87,945 corpus weight
- soft
soft
87,944 corpus weight
What this shows « sketch » 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 | sketch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skɛtʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sketch »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sketch (IPA \skɛtʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,055 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sketch, with forms such as "ksetch", "sektch", and "skecth". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "switch", "speech", "sketchs", and more, 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 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 sketch, spelled S-K-E-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Une petite comédie destinée spécialement à faire rire.
- 2Une situation bizarre, amusante.
- 3Une personne qui provoque souvent ce genre de situations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sketch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous jouions une ample comédie aux cent sketches divers : le flirt, les malentendus vite dissipés, les taquineries débonnaires et les gronderies gentilles, le dépit amoureux, les cachotteries tendres et la passion.
Nous avons choisi de travailler un sketch de Muriel Robin « Le noir » dans un contexte d 'enseignement du français à des étrangers parce qu'il nous a semblé que ce sketch par son thème et par ses procédés humoristiques permettaient de mettre en relief des éléments liés à une culture particulière d'une part et au fonctionnement universel de l'humour.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ksetch
- sektch
- skecth
- sketcch
- sketchh
- skethc
- skettch
- skketch
- sktech
- ssketch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sketch - 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 "sketch", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).