sputnik
The verdict
“sputnik” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,459. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,459
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spoutnik.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sputnik · sputnik · French
sputnik · rank #46,459 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,459
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH speedy
Nearest frequency peer: speedy (-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 « sputnik »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- somalien
somalien
53,546 corpus weight
- songeait
songeait
53,545 corpus weight
- speedy
speedy
53,543 corpus weight
- sputnik
sputnik
53,542 corpus weight
- SSE
SSE
53,541 corpus weight
- stratificat…
stratification
53,540 corpus weight
What this shows « sputnik » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sputnik |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sputnik »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around sputnik, anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,459 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Spoutnik.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sputnik, with forms such as "psutnik", "spputnik", and "sptunik". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 sputnik, spelled S-P-U-T-N-I-K.
Definition
- 1Spoutnik.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sputnik appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
V roce 1957 vypustil Sovětský svaz jako první na oběžnou dráhu umělou družici, rusky sputnik.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psutnik
- spputnik
- sptunik
- spuntik
- sputink
- sputnikk
- sputnki
- sputnnik
- sputtnik
- ssputnik
- suptnik
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sputnik - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sputnik", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).