stop
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,422
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
stop is aFrenchnoun. It means: Signalisation routière indiquant aux automobilistes qu’ils doivent marquer un arrêt et vérifier que la voie est libre avant de passer. Elle est composée dans de nombreux pays d’un panneau octogonal... Pronounced \stɔp\. It ranks #3,422 in French word frequency. Often confused with SVP and stp.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stɔp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for stop is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \stɔp\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,422 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for stop, with forms such as "sotp", "sstop", and "stopp". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SVP", "stp", "sup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is stop, spelled S-T-O-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Signalisation routière indiquant aux automobilistes qu’ils doivent marquer un arrêt et vérifier que la voie est libre avant de passer. Elle est composée dans de nombreux pays d’un panneau octogonal rouge avec l’inscription éponyme « STOP », et d’une bande blanche peinte au sol matérialisant la zone où doit s’arrêter l’avant du véhicule.
- 2Feu de signalisation, à l’arrière d’une automobile ou d’une moto qui s’allume quand on freine.
- 3Dans un télégramme, sert à séparer les phrases ou segments à la place du point.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sotp,sstop,stopp,stpo,sttop,tsop
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for stop
Misspelling Variants of "stop"
Frequency rank: #3,422 in French
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