something

/\ˈsʌm.θɪŋ\/ pron

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#23,375

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

something is aFrenchpron. It means: Quelque chose. Pronounced \ˈsʌm.θɪŋ\.

Key facts for something
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Headwordsomething
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPron
IPA\ˈsʌm.θɪŋ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#23,375
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of something in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for something is 9 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈsʌm.θɪŋ\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,375 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Quelque chose.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for something, with forms such as "osmething", "smoething", and "soemthing". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is something, spelled S-O-M-E-T-H-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quelque chose.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osmething,smoething,soemthing,somehting,somethhing,somethign,somethingg,somethinng,somethnig,sometihng,sometthing,sommething,somtehing,ssomething

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for something

Misspelling Variants of "something"

osmething9smoething9soemthing9somehting9somethhing10somethign9somethingg10somethinng10
Misspelling Variants of "something"

Frequency rank: #23,375 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "something"?
"something" is spelled S-O-M-E-T-H-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈsʌm.θɪŋ\.
What does "something" mean?
As a pron, "something" means: Quelque chose.
What are common misspellings of "something"?
Common misspellings include "osmething", "smoething", "soemthing", "somehting", "somethhing". The correct spelling is "something".
How do you pronounce "something"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "something" is \ˈsʌm.θɪŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "something" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.