Stephen
The verdict
“Stephen” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,612
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin, correspondant à Étienne ou Stéphane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stephen · Stephen · French
Stephen · rank #5,612 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,612
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH solidaire
Nearest frequency peer: solidaire (-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 « Stephen »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- révélation
révélation
94,392 corpus weight
- sir
sir
94,391 corpus weight
- solidaire
solidaire
94,390 corpus weight
- Stephen
Stephen
94,389 corpus weight
- subit
subit
94,388 corpus weight
- tensions
tensions
94,387 corpus weight
What this shows « Stephen » 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 | Stephen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Stephen »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Stephen, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,612 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin, correspondant à Étienne ou Stéphane.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Stephen, with forms such as "setphen", "sstephen", and "stehpen". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Steven", "steppe", "steppes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Stephen, spelled S-T-E-P-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin, correspondant à Étienne ou Stéphane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stephen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Stephen Quemper est suspendu pour une accumulation de jaunes la saison passée.
Winnie l’ourson est un film réalisé par Stephen J. Anderson et Don Hall avec les voix de Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Mella.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- setphen
- sstephen
- stehpen
- stepehn
- stephenn
- stephhen
- stephne
- stepphen
- stpehen
- sttephen
- tsephen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Stephen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Stephen", 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).