smoking
\smɔ.kiŋ\
The verdict
“smoking” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,973. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,973
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tenue de soirée ou de cérémonie pour homme, qui comprend un costume à revers de soie et en guise de cravate un nœud papillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smoking · smoking · French
smoking · rank #27,973 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,973
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH siégeant
Nearest frequency peer: siégeant (-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 « smoking »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- silo
silo
72,031 corpus weight
- siri
siri
72,030 corpus weight
- siégeant
siégeant
72,029 corpus weight
- smoking
smoking
72,028 corpus weight
- sociétale
sociétale
72,027 corpus weight
- soucieuse
soucieuse
72,026 corpus weight
What this shows « smoking » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smoking |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \smɔ.kiŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « smoking »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around smoking (IPA \smɔ.kiŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,973 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tenue de soirée ou de cérémonie pour homme, qui comprend un costume à revers de soie et en guise de cravate un nœud papillon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for smoking, with forms such as "msoking", "smkoing", and "smmoking". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 smoking, spelled S-M-O-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Tenue de soirée ou de cérémonie pour homme, qui comprend un costume à revers de soie et en guise de cravate un nœud papillon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how smoking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Varichkine avait endossé un smoking que nul dandy londonien n’eût renié, un smoking à revers de moire, avec un gilet de faille noire, orné d’une chaîne de montre à breloque symbolique : la faucille et le marteau d’or semés de rubis.
Mais un grand escogriffe en smoking et coiffé d’une casquette à carreaux sortait de la limousine et accourait vers les trois femmes qui l’accueillirent fraîchement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- msoking
- smkoing
- smmoking
- smoikng
- smokign
- smokingg
- smokinng
- smokking
- smoknig
- somking
- ssmoking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smoking - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).