Star

name

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,640

in French word usage

Misspellings

4

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Star is aFrenchname. It means: Nom de famille. It ranks #1,640 in French word frequency. Often confused with sur and stp.

Key facts for Star
PropertyValue
HeadwordStar
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,640
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Star in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Star is 4 letters long, classified as aname. Corpus data places it at rank #1,640 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom de famille.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for Star, with forms such as "satr", "sstar", and "stra". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Star, spelled S-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: satr,sstar,stra,sttar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Star

Misspelling Variants of "Star"

satr4sstar5stra4sttar5
Misspelling Variants of "Star"

Frequency rank: #1,640 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Star"?
"Star" is spelled S-T-A-R.
What does "Star" mean?
As a name, "Star" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Star"?
"Star" is commonly confused with "sur", "stp", "ste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Star" come from?
"Star" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.