smartphone
\smaʁt.fɔn\
The verdict
“smartphone” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,805 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,805
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Téléphone mobile incluant un ordinateur de poche.
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 | smartphone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \smaʁt.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “smartphone” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for smartphone is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \smaʁt.fɔn\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,805 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Téléphone mobile incluant un ordinateur de poche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for smartphone, with forms such as "msartphone", "samrtphone", and "smarpthone". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "smartphones", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 smartphone, spelled S-M-A-R-T-P-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Téléphone mobile incluant un ordinateur de poche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: msartphone,samrtphone,smarpthone,smarrtphone,smarthpone,smartphhone,smartphnoe,smartphoen,smartphonne,smartpohne,smartpphone,smarttphone,smatrphone,smmartphone,smratphone,ssmartphone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smartphone - 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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Using “smartphone”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-M-A-R-T-P-H-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \smaʁt.fɔn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “smartphones” - see the side-by-side comparison. smartphone vs smartphones
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.