spin
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,275
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
spin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Propriété quantique intrinsèque associée à chaque particule, qui est caractéristique de la nature de la particule, au même titre que sa masse et sa charge électrique, et qui s’apparente à la quanti... Pronounced \spin\. Often confused with sun and sri.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spin\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for spin is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \spin\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,275 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for spin, with forms such as "psin", "sipn", and "spinn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sun", "sri", "spy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is spin, spelled S-P-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Propriété quantique intrinsèque associée à chaque particule, qui est caractéristique de la nature de la particule, au même titre que sa masse et sa charge électrique, et qui s’apparente à la quantité de mouvement angulaire sans l’être.
- 2Forme de propagande qui consiste à donner délibérément une interprétation biaisée d'un événement ou à faire campagne pour influencer l'opinion publique autour d'une organisation ou d'une personne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: psin,sipn,spinn,spni,sppin,sspin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for spin
Misspelling Variants of "spin"
Frequency rank: #17,275 in French
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