stock
\stɔk\
The verdict
“stock” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,079
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quantité de marchandise qui se trouve en magasin, dans des entrepôts ou sur les marchés d’une place de commerce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stock · stock · French
stock · rank #5,079 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,079
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soixante
Nearest frequency peer: soixante (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “stock”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- rouler
rouler
94,926 corpus weight
- roux
roux
94,925 corpus weight
- soixante
soixante
94,923 corpus weight
- stock
stock
94,922 corpus weight
- susceptibles
susceptibles
94,921 corpus weight
- sûreté
sûreté
94,919 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “stock” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | stock |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stɔk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “stock” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around stock (IPA \stɔk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,079 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for stock, with forms such as "sotck", "sstock", and "stcok". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stop", "story", "stone", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is stock, spelled S-T-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1Quantité de marchandise qui se trouve en magasin, dans des entrepôts ou sur les marchés d’une place de commerce.
- 2Entrepôt, réserve.
- 3Ensemble d’individus qui, du fait de caractéristiques biologiques homogènes, peut constituer une unité de gestion (stock) ou une unité d'évaluation biologique.
- 4Ensemble d’individus humains que gère une administration.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces stocks qui étaient de moins d'un million de tonnes en 1929, se sont élevés jusqu'à 5 millions de t. en septembre 1935 et 4 millions fin juin 1936 ont progressivement décru jusqu’à 1,5 million de t. fin septembre 1937, diminuant d’environ 175 000 t. par mois.
Favier, à demi voix, fit alors remarquer que le stock serait joli : la direction allait être contente.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sotck
- sstock
- stcok
- stocck
- stockk
- stokc
- sttock
- tsock
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stock - 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 "stock", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
What to do next
You've looked up "stock". Here's where to go from here.
- "stock" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "stop". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #5,079 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.