snacks

\snak\

/\snak\/ noun

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The verdict

“snacks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,047
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de snack.

Corpus desk

Index FR-snacks · snacks · French

snacks · rank #47,047 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,047
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH socialiser

Nearest frequency peer: socialiser (+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 « snacks »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « snacks » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

snacks vs snake
67% similar
snacks vs stack
67% similar
snacks vs stocks
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for snacks
PropertyValue
Headwordsnacks
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\snak\
Letters6
Frequency rank#47,047
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « snacks »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).snacksse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « socialiser » (#47,048), « slovènes » (#47,045), « soro » (#47,050). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « snacks » est au #47,047. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around snacks (IPA \snak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,047 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de snack.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for snacks, with forms such as "nsacks", "sancks", and "snaccks". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "snake", "stack", "stocks", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 snacks, spelled S-N-A-C-K-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de snack.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how snacks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il faut supprimer les sucres raffinés : plats ultratransformés, pâtisseries, snacks et pains industriels.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • nsacks
  • sancks
  • snaccks
  • snackks
  • snackss
  • snacsk
  • snakcs
  • sncaks
  • snnacks
  • ssnacks

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of snacks - 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.

nsacks2sancks2snaccks1snackks1snackss1snacsk2snakcs2sncaks2
Edit distance from "snacks"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "snacks"?
"snacks" is spelled S-N-A-C-K-S. The IPA pronunciation is \snak\.
What does "snacks" mean?
As a noun, "snacks" means: Pluriel de snack.
What words are commonly confused with "snacks"?
"snacks" is commonly confused with "snake", "stack", "stocks". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "snacks"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "snacks" is \snak\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "snacks" come from?
"snacks" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "snacks", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

saboté#47,031Taurus#47,065Teller#47,067tiercé#47,071

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

savanes10 variantssaliver10 variantsterrasser10 variantstrépas10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list