slide
\slajd\
The verdict
“slide” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,740. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,740
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Page d’une présentation assistée par ordinateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-slide · slide · French
slide · rank #31,740 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,740
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sitter
Nearest frequency peer: sitter (-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 « slide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Siméon
Siméon
68,264 corpus weight
- sinistrés
sinistrés
68,263 corpus weight
- sitter
sitter
68,262 corpus weight
- slide
slide
68,261 corpus weight
- songez
songez
68,259 corpus weight
- souhaiterai…
souhaiteraient
68,258 corpus weight
What this shows « slide » 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 | slide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \slajd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « slide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around slide (IPA \slajd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,740 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for slide, with forms such as "lside", "silde", and "sldie". 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, "soie", "slip", "slim", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 slide, spelled S-L-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Page d’une présentation assistée par ordinateur.
- 2Transition progressive, continue ou non, d’une note à une autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how slide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« J’ai suivi le cursus pétasse : science-po, une école de commerce, ensuite les cabinets de conseil en stratégies, ces machins où on fait des slides. »
Ils ont une idée très précise – bien plus que leurs parents, en tout cas – du nombre maximal de mots à mettre sur un slide. Ils rendent des présentations à la limite du cinéma d’animation, dans lesquelles ils font bouger des objets, mais où ils ne trouvent pas le correcteur d’orthographe. Ils n’oublient jamais le slide « merci pour votre attention » à la…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lside
- silde
- sldie
- slidde
- slied
- sllide
- sslide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of slide - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).