smile
The verdict
“smile” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,233. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,233
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sourire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smile · smile · French
smile · rank #27,233 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,233
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH skier
Nearest frequency peer: skier (-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 « smile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- simultané
simultané
72,770 corpus weight
- skier
skier
72,769 corpus weight
- smile
smile
72,768 corpus weight
- snack
snack
72,767 corpus weight
- SNCB
SNCB
72,766 corpus weight
- soleils
soleils
72,765 corpus weight
What this shows « smile » 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 | smile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « smile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around smile, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,233 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sourire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for smile, with forms such as "msile", "simle", and "smiel". 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", "sole", "suie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is smile, spelled S-M-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Sourire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how smile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec « À la auteur », on remballe très vite son smile.
Pour un smile plus blanc !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- msile
- simle
- smiel
- smille
- smlie
- smmile
- ssmile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smile - 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 "smile", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).