sparks
\spɑːrks\
The verdict
“sparks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,202
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel du nom spark.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sparks · sparks · French
sparks · rank #44,202 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,202
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Spanish
Nearest frequency peer: Spanish (-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 « sparks »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soudées
soudées
55,804 corpus weight
- soulagés
soulagés
55,803 corpus weight
- Spanish
Spanish
55,800 corpus weight
- sparks
sparks
55,799 corpus weight
- splash
splash
55,798 corpus weight
- stalinisme
stalinisme
55,796 corpus weight
What this shows « sparks » 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 | sparks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɑːrks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sparks »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sparks (IPA \spɑːrks\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,202 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel du nom spark.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sparks, with forms such as "psarks", "saprks", and "spakrs". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "spas", "stars", "stark", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sparks, spelled S-P-A-R-K-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel du nom spark.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psarks
- saprks
- spakrs
- sparkks
- sparkss
- sparrks
- sparsk
- spparks
- spraks
- ssparks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sparks - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).