steppe
\stɛp\
The verdict
“steppe” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,512. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,512
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaste plaines couvertes de buissons, de pâturages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-steppe · steppe · French
steppe · rank #40,512 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,512
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH storytelling
Nearest frequency peer: storytelling (+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 « steppe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soudage
soudage
59,493 corpus weight
- stallone
stallone
59,491 corpus weight
- steppe
steppe
59,489 corpus weight
- storytelling
storytelling
59,488 corpus weight
- STS
STS
59,487 corpus weight
- stèles
stèles
59,486 corpus weight
What this shows « steppe » 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 | steppe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stɛp\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « steppe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around steppe (IPA \stɛp\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,512 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vaste plaines couvertes de buissons, de pâturages.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for steppe, with forms such as "setppe", "ssteppe", and "stepe". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Steve", "stoppé", "stopper", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is steppe, spelled S-T-E-P-P-E.
Definition
- 1Vaste plaines couvertes de buissons, de pâturages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how steppe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais à peine jeté les yeux sur ces beaux steppes sauvages où tu bondis, et je ne te parlerai point de quelques larmes essuyées en te lisant ; mais le regret n’est pas le remords, quoiqu’il en soit un peu germain.
On pouvait alors déterminer la marche des races dites rouges. Parti des steppes mongoles, un courant humain déferlait en Sibérie, gagnait l’Alaska, envahissait peu à peu l’Amérique du Nord.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- setppe
- ssteppe
- stepe
- stepep
- stpepe
- stteppe
- tseppe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of steppe - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).