sterling
\stɛʁ.liŋ\
The verdict
“sterling” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,790. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,790
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie la livre anglaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sterling · sterling · French
sterling · rank #10,790 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,790
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH state
Nearest frequency peer: state (-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 « sterling »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- silhouette
silhouette
89,214 corpus weight
- splendide
splendide
89,213 corpus weight
- state
state
89,212 corpus weight
- sterling
sterling
89,211 corpus weight
- suicider
suicider
89,210 corpus weight
- supposée
supposée
89,209 corpus weight
What this shows « sterling » 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 | sterling |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \stɛʁ.liŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sterling »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sterling (IPA \stɛʁ.liŋ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,790 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sterling, with forms such as "setrling", "ssterling", and "stelring". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "string", "Seraing", "starting", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sterling, spelled S-T-E-R-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Qualifie la livre anglaise.
- 2Relatif à la livre anglaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sterling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cinquante livres sterling.
Zone sterling, zone monétaire où la livre sterling sert d'étalon, et qui comprend la plupart des pays du Commonwealth.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- setrling
- ssterling
- stelring
- sterilng
- sterlign
- sterlingg
- sterlinng
- sterlling
- sterlnig
- sterrling
- streling
- stterling
- tserling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sterling - 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 "sterling", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).