smartphone
\smaʁt.fɔn\
The verdict
“smartphone” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,805
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Téléphone mobile incluant un ordinateur de poche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smartphone · smartphone · French
smartphone · rank #4,805 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #4,805
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH similaires
Nearest frequency peer: similaires (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “smartphone”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- satisfaction
satisfaction
95,199 corpus weight
- sauvé
sauvé
95,198 corpus weight
- similaires
similaires
95,197 corpus weight
- smartphone
smartphone
95,196 corpus weight
- spectacles
spectacles
95,194 corpus weight
- spéciales
spéciales
95,193 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “smartphone” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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) |
Où “smartphone” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around smartphone (IPA \smaʁt.fɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,805 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how smartphone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces écouteurs résistent à la poussière et à l’eau, peuvent se connecter à un smartphone et à un ordinateur sans avoir à les repairer et revendiquent aussi jusqu’à 36 heures d'autonomie.
À quand les smartphones préparant aussi les marrons chauds? On pourrait presque se le demander vu la surenchére de fonctions (télé, MP3, GPS…) proposées par ces joujoux high-tech. Le problème, c’est qu’à trop vouloir en faire, rares sont ceux qui se montrent performants partout.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "smartphone", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "smartphones". View pair
- 16 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,805 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
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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.