soprano
\sɔ.pʁa.no\
The verdict
“soprano” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,038. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,038
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voix du registre le plus élevé, qu’on appelait autrefois dessus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soprano · soprano · French
soprano · rank #15,038 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,038
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH slim
Nearest frequency peer: slim (-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 « soprano »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sentie
sentie
84,966 corpus weight
- slim
slim
84,964 corpus weight
- soprano
soprano
84,963 corpus weight
- spectaculai…
spectaculaires
84,962 corpus weight
- spontanée
spontanée
84,961 corpus weight
- spécimens
spécimens
84,960 corpus weight
What this shows « soprano » 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 | soprano |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.pʁa.no\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soprano »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around soprano (IPA \sɔ.pʁa.no\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,038 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for soprano, with forms such as "osprano", "soparno", and "sopprano". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sopra", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is soprano, spelled S-O-P-R-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Voix du registre le plus élevé, qu’on appelait autrefois dessus.
- 2Chanteuse qui possède ce registre de voix.
- 3Au sein d’une famille d’instruments de musique, instrument dont l’ambitus se situe au-delà de celui de l’alto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soprano appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais surtout la Voix me confia le secret de développer les sons de poitrine dans une voix de soprano.
En partenariat avec l’association Son ar Mein de Guimaëc, l’Association pour la sauvegarde de l’ancienne église du XVIᵉ siècle de Henvic a invité, mercredi, Victorien Disse et Étienne Galletier, musiciens aux théorbes et guitares baroques, accompagnés de Caroline Arnaud, soprano.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osprano
- soparno
- sopprano
- sopranno
- sopraon
- soprnao
- soprrano
- sorpano
- sporano
- ssoprano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soprano - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "soprano", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).