steak
\stɛk\
The verdict
“steak” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,484. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,484
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tranche de viande de bœuf, de thon, de chair de poisson ou à base de légumes prêt à une cuisson à la poêle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-steak · steak · French
steak · rank #12,484 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,484
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spider
Nearest frequency peer: spider (-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 « steak »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soutenus
soutenus
87,520 corpus weight
- souverains
souverains
87,519 corpus weight
- spider
spider
87,518 corpus weight
- steak
steak
87,517 corpus weight
- Stuart
Stuart
87,516 corpus weight
- superman
superman
87,515 corpus weight
What this shows « steak » 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 | steak |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stɛk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « steak »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around steak (IPA \stɛk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,484 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for steak, with forms such as "setak", "ssteak", and "staek". 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, "step", "Steve", "stock", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is steak, spelled S-T-E-A-K.
Definition
- 1Tranche de viande de bœuf, de thon, de chair de poisson ou à base de légumes prêt à une cuisson à la poêle.
- 2Ampoule ou arrachement de la peau de la paume, à la base des doigts, provoqués par la pratique de certaines activités sportives, notamment les agrès de barres en gymnastique artistique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how steak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Et vous comptez tenir le barbeuc dehors tout à l’heure, aussi ? Retourner les steaks hachés à ma place ?
Steak de saumon sur lit d’asperges et salade de pommes de terre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- setak
- ssteak
- staek
- steakk
- steka
- stteak
- tseak
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of steak - 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.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).