Stephan
\ˈʃtɛfan\
The verdict
“Stephan” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,195. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,195
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stéphane, Étienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stephan · Stephan · French
Stephan · rank #26,195 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,195
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stellaire
Nearest frequency peer: stellaire (-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 « Stephan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stabilisé
stabilisé
73,809 corpus weight
- Steiner
Steiner
73,808 corpus weight
- stellaire
stellaire
73,807 corpus weight
- Stephan
Stephan
73,806 corpus weight
- sueurs
sueurs
73,805 corpus weight
- sung
sung
73,804 corpus weight
What this shows « Stephan » 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 | Stephan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈʃtɛfan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Stephan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Stephan (IPA \ˈʃtɛfan\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #26,195 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Stéphane, Étienne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Stephan, with forms such as "setphan", "sstephan", and "stehpan". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Stephen", "Stéphane", "Stephens", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Stephan, spelled S-T-E-P-H-A-N.
Definition
- 1Stéphane, Étienne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- setphan
- sstephan
- stehpan
- stepahn
- stephann
- stephhan
- stephna
- stepphan
- stpehan
- sttephan
- tsephan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Stephan - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Stephan", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).