space
\spɛs\
The verdict
“space” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,162. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,162
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécial, étrange, qui sort de l’ordinaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-space · space · French
space · rank #8,162 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,162
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shopping
Nearest frequency peer: shopping (-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 « space »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- school
school
91,842 corpus weight
- segment
segment
91,841 corpus weight
- shopping
shopping
91,840 corpus weight
- space
space
91,839 corpus weight
- spirituelle
spirituelle
91,838 corpus weight
- sure
sure
91,837 corpus weight
What this shows « space » 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 | space |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \spɛs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « space »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around space (IPA \spɛs\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,162 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Spécial, étrange, qui sort de l’ordinaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for space, with forms such as "psace", "sapce", and "spacce". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "spam", "sucé", "spas", and more, 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 space, spelled S-P-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Spécial, étrange, qui sort de l’ordinaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how space appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
T’as vu comment il s’habille ? Il est space, ce mec !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psace
- sapce
- spacce
- spaec
- spcae
- sppace
- sspace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of space - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).