smooth
\smus\
The verdict
“smooth” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,153. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,153
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Calme, lisse, doux, détendu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smooth · smooth · French
smooth · rank #43,153 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,153
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sisters
Nearest frequency peer: sisters (-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 « smooth »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sinn
sinn
56,851 corpus weight
- sinueuse
sinueuse
56,850 corpus weight
- sisters
sisters
56,849 corpus weight
- smooth
smooth
56,848 corpus weight
- sodomiser
sodomiser
56,847 corpus weight
- sophismes
sophismes
56,846 corpus weight
What this shows « smooth » 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 | smooth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \smus\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « smooth »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around smooth (IPA \smus\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,153 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Calme, lisse, doux, détendu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for smooth, with forms such as "msooth", "smmooth", and "smooht". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "south", "smoothie", "smith", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is smooth, spelled S-M-O-O-T-H.
Definition
- 1Calme, lisse, doux, détendu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how smooth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fin du fin, comme chez Pres, c’est de plier la boîte de bière de la main droite tout en conduisant la voiture de la main gauche, sans accroc, tout ça enchaîné, smoothly, avec suavité. Il faut être rugueux et smooth – ça veut dire souple, ondoyant, dégagé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- msooth
- smmooth
- smooht
- smoothh
- smootth
- smoth
- smotoh
- somoth
- ssmooth
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smooth - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).