stade

\stad\

/\stad\/ noun

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The verdict

“stade” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,191. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,191
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mesure de longueur valant à peu près 180 mètres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-stade · stade · French

stade · rank #1,191 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,191
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH st

Nearest frequency peer: st (-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 « stade »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « stade » 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).

stade vs ste
60% similar
stade vs Star
40% similar
stade vs stan
60% similar

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

Key facts for stade
PropertyValue
Headwordstade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\stad\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,191
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « stade »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).stadese 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 « st » (#1,190), « religion » (#1,189), « volonté » (#1,193). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « stade » est au #1,191. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around stade (IPA \stad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,191 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for stade, with forms such as "satde", "sstade", and "stadde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ste", "Star", "stan", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is stade, spelled S-T-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mesure de longueur valant à peu près 180 mètres.
  2. 2
    Carrière ou enceinte ayant cette longueur et où les Grecs s’exerçaient à la course.
  3. 3
    Bâtiment qui entoure ce terrain de sport où se déroulent des compétitions sportives.
  4. 4
    Période ou degré d’une maladie intermittente.
  5. 5
    Degré ou palier dans une évolution.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le stade grec ou italique, stade primitif, stadion, dont 8 ⅓ formaient le mille, se divisait en 6 plèthres = 10 amma = 60 acènes = 100 orgyies = 120 bême-diploun ou pas doubles = 240 bême-aploun = 400 coudées naturelles = 600 pieds. Le stade olympique faisait 400 coudées olympiques = 600 pieds olympiques. Le stade pythique ou delphique de 1000 pieds delph…
  2. Aristote, d’après certains savants de son époque, considérait le stade, ou coudée égyptienne au temps de Sésostris, comme formant la cent millième partie du pôle à l’équateur.

This word in other languages

stadium(English)estadio(Español)Stadion(Deutsch)estádio(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • satde
  • sstade
  • stadde
  • staed
  • stdae
  • sttade
  • tsade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stade - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

satde2sstade1stadde1staed2stdae2sttade1tsade2
Edit distance from "stade"

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 "stade"?
"stade" is spelled S-T-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \stad\.
What does "stade" mean?
As a noun, "stade" means: Mesure de longueur valant à peu près 180 mètres.
What words are commonly confused with "stade"?
"stade" is commonly confused with "ste", "Star", "stan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "stade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "stade" is \stad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "stade" come from?
"stade" 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 "stade", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vraie#1,194lutte#1,184drôle#1,200débat#1,201

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

hiver7 variantsseuls7 variantschien7 variantscoups7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list