Sochaux
\sɔ.ʃo\
The verdict
“Sochaux” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,991. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,991
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Doubs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sochaux · Sochaux · French
Sochaux · rank #19,991 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,991
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sit
Nearest frequency peer: sit (-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 « Sochaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Shannon
Shannon
80,014 corpus weight
- simplifiée
simplifiée
80,013 corpus weight
- Sims
Sims
80,012 corpus weight
- sit
sit
80,011 corpus weight
- Sochaux
Sochaux
80,010 corpus weight
- spontané
spontané
80,008 corpus weight
What this shows « Sochaux » 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 | Sochaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.ʃo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sochaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Sochaux (IPA \sɔ.ʃo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,991 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Doubs.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sochaux, with forms such as "oschaux", "scohaux", and "socahux". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sociaux", "sceaux", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Sochaux, spelled S-O-C-H-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Doubs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sochaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nicolas, lui, travaille à la chaîne aux usines Peugeot de Sochaux, une filiale qui construit des Mobylette.
L’homogénéité et la compétitivité de la division séduisent également le Finistérien Valentin Henry (129 matchs de L2), qui va entamer sa deuxième saison à Sochaux, à 28 ans.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oschaux
- scohaux
- socahux
- socchaux
- sochauxx
- sochaxu
- sochhaux
- sochuax
- sohcaux
- ssochaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sochaux - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).