sparrow
\ˈspæɹəʊ\
The verdict
“sparrow” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,548. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,548
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moineau, passereau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sparrow · sparrow · French
sparrow · rank #39,548 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,548
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soûler
Nearest frequency peer: soûler (-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 « sparrow »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soufflait
soufflait
60,457 corpus weight
- souffrante
souffrante
60,456 corpus weight
- soviet
soviet
60,455 corpus weight
- soûler
soûler
60,454 corpus weight
- sparrow
sparrow
60,453 corpus weight
- SPF
SPF
60,451 corpus weight
What this shows « sparrow » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sparrow |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈspæɹəʊ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sparrow »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sparrow (IPA \ˈspæɹəʊ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,548 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sparrow, with forms such as "psarrow", "saprrow", and "sparorw". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sparrow, spelled S-P-A-R-R-O-W.
Definition
- 1Moineau, passereau.
- 2Piaf.
- 3Bruant des Amériques, emberizidé (Emberizidae).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psarrow
- saprrow
- sparorw
- sparow
- sparroww
- sparrwo
- spparrow
- sprarow
- ssparrow
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sparrow - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).