SQL
\ɛs.ky.ɛl\
The verdict
“SQL” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,820) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,820
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langage informatique destiné à l’accès aux bases de données relationnelles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sql · SQL · French
SQL · rank #30,820 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,820
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spécification
Nearest frequency peer: spécification (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « SQL »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- sournois
sournois
69,184 corpus weight
- spécialiser
spécialiser
69,183 corpus weight
- spécificati…
spécification
69,182 corpus weight
- SQL
SQL
69,181 corpus weight
- stupéfait
stupéfait
69,180 corpus weight
- stéroïdes
stéroïdes
69,179 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « SQL » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | SQL |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ky.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « SQL »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SQL is neighbouring look-alikes ("st", "su", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ɛs.ky.ɛl\. Frequency #30,820 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Langage informatique destiné à l’accès aux bases de données relationnelles.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for SQL, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "su", "ss", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is SQL, spelled S-Q-L.
Definition
- 1Langage informatique destiné à l’accès aux bases de données relationnelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how SQL appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant, le SQL utilisé dans ce livre reste bien loin des domaines complexes du langage et se limite aux instructions de base DELETE, INSERT, SELECT et UPDATE.
Les bases de données classiques, transactionnelles ou colonnes, s’utilisent avec SQL, mais de nouvelles bases de données apparaissent depuis une dizaine d’années.
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).