slam
\slam\
The verdict
“slam” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,875
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de plongeon dans une foule, afin d’y être porté, notamment lors de concerts de rock ou de metal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-slam · slam · French
slam · rank #26,875 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,875
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH singulièrement
Nearest frequency peer: singulièrement (-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 « slam »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- serrant
serrant
73,129 corpus weight
- singles
singles
73,128 corpus weight
- singulièrem…
singulièrement
73,127 corpus weight
- slam
slam
73,126 corpus weight
- soulevée
soulevée
73,125 corpus weight
- soulevées
soulevées
73,124 corpus weight
What this shows « slam » 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 | slam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \slam\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « slam »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around slam (IPA \slam\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,875 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sorte de plongeon dans une foule, afin d’y être porté, notamment lors de concerts de rock ou de metal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for slam, with forms such as "lsam", "salm", and "slamm". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SM", "STM", "sum", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is slam, spelled S-L-A-M.
Definition
- 1Sorte de plongeon dans une foule, afin d’y être porté, notamment lors de concerts de rock ou de metal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how slam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] on ne compte plus les spectateurs qui atterrissent dans les bras de la sécurité après un slam.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lsam
- salm
- slamm
- sllam
- slma
- sslam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of slam - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).