skipper
\ski.pœʁ\
The verdict
“skipper” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,776
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitaine d’un bateau le plus souvent dans le nautisme ou la compétition à la voile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-skipper · skipper · French
skipper · rank #24,776 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,776
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shake
Nearest frequency peer: shake (-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 « skipper »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sentinelles
sentinelles
75,228 corpus weight
- sep
sep
75,227 corpus weight
- shake
shake
75,226 corpus weight
- skipper
skipper
75,225 corpus weight
- solennel
solennel
75,224 corpus weight
- sollicitée
sollicitée
75,223 corpus weight
What this shows « skipper » 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 | skipper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ski.pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « skipper »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around skipper (IPA \ski.pœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,776 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Capitaine d’un bateau le plus souvent dans le nautisme ou la compétition à la voile.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for skipper, with forms such as "ksipper", "sikpper", and "skipepr". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sniper", "stopper", "skier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is skipper, spelled S-K-I-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Capitaine d’un bateau le plus souvent dans le nautisme ou la compétition à la voile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how skipper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une nuit en pleine mer coincée sous son bateau chaviré : le skipper français Laurent Camprubi a été secouru in extremis au large des côtes du nord de l’Espagne après avoir passé 16 heures sous la coque de son voilier, grâce à une poche d’air de 30 centimètres.
Éric Tabarly est un navigateur et un skipper professionnel français.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ksipper
- sikpper
- skipepr
- skiper
- skipperr
- skippre
- skkipper
- skpiper
- sskipper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of skipper - 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 "skipper", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).