Star
The verdict
“Star” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,640) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,640
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-star · Star · French
Star · rank #1,640 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,640
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH régulièrement
Nearest frequency peer: régulièrement (-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 « Star »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- rejoindre
rejoindre
98,365 corpus weight
- régulièreme…
régulièrement
98,362 corpus weight
- Star
Star
98,361 corpus weight
- structure
structure
98,360 corpus weight
- textes
textes
98,359 corpus weight
- tiers
tiers
98,358 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Star » 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 | Star |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Star »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Star is neighbouring look-alikes ("sur", "stp", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #1,640 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Star, with forms such as "satr", "sstar", and "stra". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sur", "stp", "ste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Star, spelled S-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Star appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Darren Star écrit pour les femmes d’une manière absolument magnifique, on le sait depuis longtemps.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satr
- sstar
- stra
- sttar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Star - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Star", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).