skinny
\ski.ni\
The verdict
“skinny” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,754. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,754
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étroit, moulant, près du corps, pour un vêtement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-skinny · skinny · French
skinny · rank #34,754 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,754
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signalons
Nearest frequency peer: signalons (-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 « skinny »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Shiva
Shiva
65,250 corpus weight
- shui
shui
65,249 corpus weight
- signalons
signalons
65,248 corpus weight
- skinny
skinny
65,247 corpus weight
- Sloane
Sloane
65,246 corpus weight
- soufflet
soufflet
65,244 corpus weight
What this shows « skinny » 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 | skinny |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ski.ni\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « skinny »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around skinny (IPA \ski.ni\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,754 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Étroit, moulant, près du corps, pour un vêtement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for skinny, with forms such as "ksinny", "siknny", and "skinnyy". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Sonny", "sunny", "skins", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is skinny, spelled S-K-I-N-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Étroit, moulant, près du corps, pour un vêtement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how skinny appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce que les gens ne doivent pas attendre de moi, c’est de faire des diffusions en direct, de porter un jean skinny, de faire des mouvements de batteur étranges avec mes mains et de parler chinois.
Les jeans skinny ont connu leur pic de popularité dans les années 2010. Pour Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, c'est peut-être le Covid qui a accéléré son déclin, car les gens passaient du temps à la maison, ce qui a favorisé la diffusion de pantalons plus larges et confortables.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ksinny
- siknny
- skinnyy
- skiny
- skinyn
- skkinny
- skniny
- sskinny
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of skinny - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).