smet
The verdict
“smet” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,280. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,280
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pâte liquide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smet · smet · French
smet · rank #35,280 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,280
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH slips
Nearest frequency peer: slips (-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 « smet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sint
sint
64,724 corpus weight
- sismiques
sismiques
64,723 corpus weight
- slips
slips
64,722 corpus weight
- smet
smet
64,721 corpus weight
- snif
snif
64,720 corpus weight
- solvants
solvants
64,719 corpus weight
What this shows « smet » 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 | smet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #35,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « smet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around smet, anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,280 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pâte liquide.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for smet, with forms such as "mset", "semt", and "smett". 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, "st", "SMS", "ste", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is smet, spelled S-M-E-T.
Definition
- 1Pâte liquide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how smet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pannkakssmet - Pâte à crêpes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mset
- semt
- smett
- smmet
- smte
- ssmet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smet - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "smet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).