skin
\skin\
The verdict
“skin” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,576. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,576
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habillage, couche qui s’applique à une interface de jeu ou de programme pour en modifier l’apparence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-skin · skin · French
skin · rank #20,576 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,576
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sil
Nearest frequency peer: sil (-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 « skin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- servitude
servitude
79,428 corpus weight
- Shane
Shane
79,427 corpus weight
- sil
sil
79,426 corpus weight
- skin
skin
79,425 corpus weight
- sorts
sorts
79,424 corpus weight
- souples
souples
79,423 corpus weight
What this shows « skin » 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 | skin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skin\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « skin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around skin (IPA \skin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,576 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for skin, with forms such as "ksin", "sikn", and "skinn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sn", "son", "sun", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is skin, spelled S-K-I-N.
Definition
- 1Habillage, couche qui s’applique à une interface de jeu ou de programme pour en modifier l’apparence.
- 2[…] un skin modifie toute l’apparence du logiciel : fond, boutons, barres, glissières, curseurs, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how skin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’est-ce que tu préfères comme skin ? Avec les boutons à droite ou avec les boutons à gauche ?
Si l’apparence de ce programme ne te plaît pas, tu n’as qu’à changer la skin, le thème. Il y en a plusieurs de disponibles. Moi je préfère celle avec le fond rouge, les bordures noires, le pack d’icônes material design et la police de caractère Arial.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ksin
- sikn
- skinn
- skkin
- skni
- sskin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of skin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).