spot

\spɔt\

/\spɔt\/ noun

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The verdict

“spot” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,587. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,587
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Site particulièrement favorable, par exemple pour exercer un sport de plein air, plus particulièrement un sport de glisse, ou dans le cadre d’une discipline scientifique, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-spot · spot · French

spot · rank #10,587 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,587
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH south

Nearest frequency peer: south (-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 « spot »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « spot » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

spot vs st
50% similar
spot vs SVT
0% similar
spot vs sto
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for spot
PropertyValue
Headwordspot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\spɔt\
Letters4
Frequency rank#10,587
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spot »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).spotse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « south » (#10,586), « sprint » (#10,588), « soulager » (#10,585). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « spot » est au #10,587. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around spot (IPA \spɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,587 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for spot, with forms such as "sopt", "spott", and "sppot". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "SVT", "sto", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is spot, spelled S-P-O-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Site particulièrement favorable, par exemple pour exercer un sport de plein air, plus particulièrement un sport de glisse, ou dans le cadre d’une discipline scientifique, etc.
  2. 2
    Endroit souvent fréquenté.
  3. 3
    Court-métrage commercial ou institutionnel.
  4. 4
    Projecteur utilisé pour l'éclairage de spectacles ou de studios de tournage au cinéma.
  5. 5
    Éclairage domestique donnant un faisceau de lumière plus ou moins large.
  6. 6
    Tache à un emplacement particulier de la robe, notamment pour les chiens.
  7. 7
    Bouton d'acné
  8. 8
    Lumière.
  9. 9
    Date de valeur, qui est la date du jour plus deux jours ouvrés sur le marché au comptant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how spot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il faut souligner que le massif vosgien, plus précisément le Val-de-Senones, constitue pour beaucoup de botanistes un véritable spot en matière de biodiversité pour les ptéridophytes et les bryophytes […].
  2. Ce spot est depuis cinq ans le plus couru de la planète.

This word in other languages

spot(English)Spot(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • sopt
  • spott
  • sppot
  • spto
  • sspot

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spot - 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.

sopt2spott1sppot1spto2sspot1
Edit distance from "spot"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "spot"?
"spot" is spelled S-P-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \spɔt\.
What does "spot" mean?
As a noun, "spot" means: Site particulièrement favorable, par exemple pour exercer un sport de plein air, plus particulièrement un sport de glisse, ou dans le cadre d’une discipline scientifique, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "spot"?
"spot" is commonly confused with "st", "SVT", "sto". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "spot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "spot" is \spɔt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "spot" come from?
"spot" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "spot", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list