splash
\splaʃ\
The verdict
“splash” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,203. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,203
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée reproduisant le bruit d’un objet solide au contact de l’eau, d’éclaboussures ou d’une chute violente, d’un écrasement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-splash · splash · French
splash · rank #44,203 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,203
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sparks
Nearest frequency peer: sparks (-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 « splash »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- student
student
55,794 corpus weight
What this shows « splash » 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 | splash |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \splaʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « splash »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around splash (IPA \splaʃ\), anonomatopoeia. Corpus frequency is #44,203 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Onomatopée reproduisant le bruit d’un objet solide au contact de l’eau, d’éclaboussures ou d’une chute violente, d’un écrasement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for splash, with forms such as "pslash", "slpash", and "spalsh". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "squash", "spas", "smash", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is splash, spelled S-P-L-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée reproduisant le bruit d’un objet solide au contact de l’eau, d’éclaboussures ou d’une chute violente, d’un écrasement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how splash appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
SPLASH ! PLOUF ! FLOC ! OK, c’était ni un rêve ni un cauchemar. Non seulement je suis trempé jusqu’aux os, mais je me suis fait avoir comme un cocker débutant.
C’est alors qu’une suite rapide de bruits l’a fait sursauter : plouf, splash, splash, splash... Une personne, qu’elle n'a ni vu, ni entendu venir, court dans l’eau et plonge quelques mètres plus loin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pslash
- slpash
- spalsh
- splahs
- splashh
- splassh
- spllash
- splsah
- spplash
- ssplash
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of splash - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).