Stern
The verdict
“Stern” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,819
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stern · Stern · French
Stern · rank #25,819 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,819
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Stefano
Nearest frequency peer: Stefano (-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 « Stern »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- src
src
74,185 corpus weight
- Status
Status
74,184 corpus weight
- Stefano
Stefano
74,183 corpus weight
- Stern
Stern
74,182 corpus weight
- stick
stick
74,181 corpus weight
- strange
strange
74,180 corpus weight
What this shows « Stern » 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 | Stern |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Stern »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Stern, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #25,819 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Stern, with forms such as "setrn", "sstern", and "stenr". 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, "Sven", "suer", "Steve", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Stern, spelled S-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alice Stern.
Antoine Jacob Stern.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- setrn
- sstern
- stenr
- sternn
- sterrn
- stren
- sttern
- tsern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Stern - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).