stopper
\stɔ.pe\
The verdict
“stopper” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,468. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,468
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arrêter, en parlant d’un navire à moteur, d’un train, d’une machine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stopper · stopper · French
stopper · rank #8,468 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,468
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stocks
Nearest frequency peer: stocks (-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 « stopper »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stan
stan
91,536 corpus weight
- standards
standards
91,535 corpus weight
- stocks
stocks
91,534 corpus weight
- stopper
stopper
91,533 corpus weight
- Subvention
Subvention
91,532 corpus weight
- supermarché
supermarché
91,531 corpus weight
What this shows « stopper » 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 | stopper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \stɔ.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « stopper »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around stopper (IPA \stɔ.pe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,468 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for stopper, with forms such as "sotpper", "sstopper", and "stopepr". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "souper", "stoppé", "steppe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is stopper, spelled S-T-O-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Arrêter, en parlant d’un navire à moteur, d’un train, d’une machine.
- 2Recevoir (un coup, un projectile).
- 3Arrêter.
- 4Effectuer un stoppage sur un tissu
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stopper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est impossible, car le train va bientôt stopper à Ghéok-Tepé, puis à Askhabad, d’où il repartira aux premières lueurs du jour.
Une puissante voiture de marque étrangère stoppa au bout de l’avenue Ruysdaël, tout près de l’entrée du parc Monceau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sotpper
- sstopper
- stopepr
- stoper
- stopperr
- stoppre
- stpoper
- sttopper
- tsopper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stopper - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "stopper", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).