staff
\staf\
The verdict
“staff” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,463
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plâtre adjuvanté de glycérine ou autre liant et armé de toile de jute ou de tissu de verre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-staff · staff · French
staff · rank #8,463 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,463
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souffrances
Nearest frequency peer: souffrances (-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 « staff »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Singapour
Singapour
91,541 corpus weight
- sommets
sommets
91,540 corpus weight
- souffrances
souffrances
91,539 corpus weight
- staff
staff
91,538 corpus weight
- stages
stages
91,537 corpus weight
- stan
stan
91,536 corpus weight
What this shows « staff » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | staff |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \staf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « staff »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around staff (IPA \staf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,463 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plâtre adjuvanté de glycérine ou autre liant et armé de toile de jute ou de tissu de verre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for staff, with forms such as "satff", "sstaff", and "staf". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Star", "stan", "stat", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is staff, spelled S-T-A-F-F.
Definition
- 1Plâtre adjuvanté de glycérine ou autre liant et armé de toile de jute ou de tissu de verre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how staff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle honnit le carton-pâte et l’ornement en staff, l’orviétan des charlatans littéraires, le tarabiscotage des épithètes, qui sont trop souvent l’essentiel d’un livre consacré aux splendeurs factices d"un climat africain.
Le staff apparaît grâce au Français Mézier qui vers 1850 a l’idée de réaliser une première corniche préfabriquée armée d’une toile de jute. Dès lors l’emploi du staff se développe rapidement jusqu’à atteindre son apogée à la belle époque.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satff
- sstaff
- staf
- stfaf
- sttaff
- tsaff
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of staff - 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.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).