spot
\spɔt\
The verdict
“spot” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #10,587 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #10,587
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
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 | spot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɔt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “spot” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for spot is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \spɔt\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,587 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1Site 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.
- 2Endroit souvent fréquenté.
- 3Court-métrage commercial ou institutionnel.
- 4Projecteur utilisé pour l'éclairage de spectacles ou de studios de tournage au cinéma.
- 5Éclairage domestique donnant un faisceau de lumière plus ou moins large.
- 6Tache à un emplacement particulier de la robe, notamment pour les chiens.
- 7Bouton d'acné
- 8Lumière.
- 9Date de valeur, qui est la date du jour plus deux jours ouvrés sur le marché au comptant.
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “spot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-P-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \spɔt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “st” - see the side-by-side comparison. spot vs st
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.