spider
\spi.dɛʁ\
The verdict
“spider” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,483. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,483
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décapotable conçue comme telle et non en dérivé d’un modèle de série.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spider · spider · French
spider · rank #12,483 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,483
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souverains
Nearest frequency peer: souverains (-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 « spider »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sollicité
sollicité
87,521 corpus weight
- soutenus
soutenus
87,520 corpus weight
- souverains
souverains
87,519 corpus weight
- spider
spider
87,518 corpus weight
- steak
steak
87,517 corpus weight
- Stuart
Stuart
87,516 corpus weight
What this shows « spider » 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 | spider |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spi.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spider »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around spider (IPA \spi.dɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,483 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for spider, with forms such as "psider", "sipder", and "spdier". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "spike", "spire", "spoiler", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 spider, spelled S-P-I-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Décapotable conçue comme telle et non en dérivé d’un modèle de série.
- 2Coffre d’un coupé ou d’un cabriolet, pouvant se transformer en places passager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spider appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Alfa giulietta est un spider coquin, amusant, à la ligne moderne mais avec une technique ancienne.
Fredel courait au-devant de l’auto qui, dans un glissement silencieux, venait se ranger devant le perron du Grand-Hôtel. Mais avant qu’il eût pu toucher à la portière, un chauffeur en livrée claire à parements jaunes, du même jaune que la carrosserie, sortait du spider, se précipitait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psider
- sipder
- spdier
- spidder
- spiderr
- spidre
- spiedr
- sppider
- sspider
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spider - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).