smiley
\smaj.lɛ\
The verdict
“smiley” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,036. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,036
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représentation graphique d’un visage humain souriant, le plus souvent coloré en jaune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smiley · smiley · French
smiley · rank #24,036 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,036
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH simpliste
Nearest frequency peer: simpliste (-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 « smiley »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- silvio
silvio
75,968 corpus weight
- simpliste
simpliste
75,966 corpus weight
- smiley
smiley
75,965 corpus weight
- sole
sole
75,964 corpus weight
- Soral
Soral
75,963 corpus weight
- souffrez
souffrez
75,962 corpus weight
What this shows « smiley » 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 | smiley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \smaj.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « smiley »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around smiley (IPA \smaj.lɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,036 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Représentation graphique d’un visage humain souriant, le plus souvent coloré en jaune.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for smiley, with forms such as "msiley", "simley", and "smiely". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Stiles", "smileys", "silex", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 smiley, spelled S-M-I-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Représentation graphique d’un visage humain souriant, le plus souvent coloré en jaune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how smiley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Manon aime bien discuter avec ses amis le soir sur son ordinateur. Elle connait bien comme eux tous les lol, mdr et autres smileys/émoticônes. Elle utilise Windows Live Messenger et arrive à suivre une dizaine de conversations sans problème.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- msiley
- simley
- smiely
- smileyy
- smilley
- smilye
- smliey
- smmiley
- ssmiley
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smiley - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).