smash
\smaʃ\
The verdict
“smash” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,171. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,171
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coup frappé violemment vers le sol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smash · smash · French
smash · rank #21,171 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,171
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH simulations
Nearest frequency peer: simulations (-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 « smash »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- silicon
silicon
78,832 corpus weight
- simulations
simulations
78,831 corpus weight
- smash
smash
78,830 corpus weight
- Sorel
Sorel
78,829 corpus weight
- SPVM
SPVM
78,828 corpus weight
- strong
strong
78,827 corpus weight
What this shows « smash » 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 | smash |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \smaʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « smash »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around smash (IPA \smaʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,171 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Coup frappé violemment vers le sol.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for smash, with forms such as "msash", "samsh", and "smahs". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "SMS", "SSH", "spas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is smash, spelled S-M-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1Coup frappé violemment vers le sol.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- msash
- samsh
- smahs
- smashh
- smassh
- smmash
- smsah
- ssmash
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smash - 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 "smash", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).