sniper
\snaj.pœʁ\
The verdict
“sniper” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,274. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,274
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tireur d’élite, embusqué, isolé, dans un contexte d’affrontement armé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sniper · sniper · French
sniper · rank #17,274 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,274
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sioniste
Nearest frequency peer: sioniste (-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 « sniper »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- shows
shows
82,730 corpus weight
- siennes
siennes
82,729 corpus weight
- sioniste
sioniste
82,728 corpus weight
- sniper
sniper
82,727 corpus weight
- spin
spin
82,726 corpus weight
- sponsor
sponsor
82,725 corpus weight
What this shows « sniper » 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 | sniper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \snaj.pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sniper »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sniper (IPA \snaj.pœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,274 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sniper, with forms such as "nsiper", "sinper", and "sniepr". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "super", "souper", "spider", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sniper, spelled S-N-I-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tireur d’élite, embusqué, isolé, dans un contexte d’affrontement armé.
- 2Par ellipse, arme utilisée par ce dernier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sniper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Yougoslavie était à feu et à sang, les balles de tireurs invisibles, les snipers, zébraient les rues.
Certains vétérans de l’armée d’Israël tiennent cette guerre d’usure pour la plus dure de toutes celles qu’ils eurent à livrer car il fallait être sur le qui-vive à tout instant et ne jamais baisser sa garde : celui qui, rendu claustrophobe par le confinement du bunker, sortait respirer à l’air libre avait de grandes chances d’être abattu par un sniper égy…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nsiper
- sinper
- sniepr
- sniperr
- snipper
- snipre
- snniper
- snpier
- ssniper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sniper - 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.
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).