stands
\stɑ̃d\
The verdict
“stands” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,486. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,486
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de stand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stands · stands · French
stands · rank #16,486 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,486
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soulagé
Nearest frequency peer: soulagé (-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 « stands »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sillage
sillage
83,518 corpus weight
- soulagé
soulagé
83,516 corpus weight
- stands
stands
83,515 corpus weight
- stupéfiants
stupéfiants
83,514 corpus weight
- substitut
substitut
83,513 corpus weight
- suicidaire
suicidaire
83,512 corpus weight
What this shows « stands » 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 | stands |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « stands »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around stands (IPA \stɑ̃d\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,486 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de stand.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for stands, with forms such as "satnds", "sstands", and "stadns". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "stars", "stats", "Staps", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is stands, spelled S-T-A-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de stand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stands appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Difficile de ne pas trouver son bonheur sur l’un des nombreux stands des commerçants non sédentaires ou les étals des commerces saint-politains installés dans le centre-ville depuis vendredi matin : vêtements et accessoires pour les férus de mode, jeux et ballons colorés pour les enfants, ustensiles de ménage « miracles » pour les fées du logis, objets ar…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satnds
- sstands
- stadns
- standds
- standss
- stannds
- stansd
- stnads
- sttands
- tsands
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stands - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).