stone
\ston\
The verdict
“stone” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,932. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,932
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hébété, manquant de vitalité, en particulier à la suite d’une consommation de psychotropes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stone · stone · French
stone · rank #8,932 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,932
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH statues
Nearest frequency peer: statues (-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 « stone »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soudan
soudan
91,072 corpus weight
- square
square
91,071 corpus weight
- statues
statues
91,070 corpus weight
- stone
stone
91,069 corpus weight
- streaming
streaming
91,068 corpus weight
- surmonter
surmonter
91,067 corpus weight
What this shows « stone » 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 | stone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ston\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « stone »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around stone (IPA \ston\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,932 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hébété, manquant de vitalité, en particulier à la suite d’une consommation de psychotropes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for stone, with forms such as "sotne", "sstone", and "stnoe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stop", "style", "story", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is stone, spelled S-T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hébété, manquant de vitalité, en particulier à la suite d’une consommation de psychotropes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au milieu d’un méga-nuage de cannabis qui flottait dans l’immense salle (oui, fumer du tabac dans les salles de concert, c’était légal), j’avais demandé à ma sœur si j'allais être stone.
Les gens se lâchaient en sa présence, parce qu'il avait toujours l'air beaucoup plus stone qu'il ne l'était vraiment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sotne
- sstone
- stnoe
- stoen
- stonne
- sttone
- tsone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stone - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).