Staps

noun

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The verdict

“Staps” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,632
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’une formation universitaire française aux métiers du sport.

Corpus desk

Index FR-staps · Staps · French

Staps · rank #42,632 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,632
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sporadiques

Nearest frequency peer: sporadiques (-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 « Staps »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Staps » 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).

Staps vs stp
40% similar
Staps vs STS
20% similar
Staps vs Star
60% similar

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

Key facts for Staps
PropertyValue
HeadwordStaps
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#42,632
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Staps »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Stapsse 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 « sporadiques » (#42,631), « steward » (#42,633), « spoliation » (#42,630). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Staps » est au #42,632. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Staps, anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,632 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom d’une formation universitaire française aux métiers du sport.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Staps, with forms such as "satps", "sstaps", and "stapps". 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, "stp", "STS", "Star", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Staps, spelled S-T-A-P-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom d’une formation universitaire française aux métiers du sport.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 20 Minutes a réuni Tony Estanguet et trois postulants : Patrick Larrieu, 64 ans, retraité, Laetitia Deniaux, 21 ans, étudiante en Staps, et Jérémy Whyte, 29 ans, volontaire lors des JO de Rio.
  2. Créée en 1928, il y a quatre-vingt-dix ans, la faculté des sciences du sport Staps au 1 rue Lacretelle représente bien l’histoire des recherches sur le corps et le mouvement en France.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • satps
  • sstaps
  • stapps
  • stapss
  • stasp
  • stpas
  • sttaps
  • tsaps

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Staps - 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.

satps2sstaps1stapps1stapss1stasp2stpas2sttaps1tsaps2
Edit distance from "Staps"

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 "Staps"?
"Staps" is spelled S-T-A-P-S.
What does "Staps" mean?
As a noun, "Staps" means: Nom d’une formation universitaire française aux métiers du sport.
What words are commonly confused with "Staps"?
"Staps" is commonly confused with "stp", "STS", "Star". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Staps" come from?
"Staps" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Staps", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

Sikhs#42,619salma#42,603têtue#42,667rédac#42,593

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Sodome8 variantsToledo8 variantstoucha8 variantsécroué8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list