story
\sto.ʁi\
The verdict
“story” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,139. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,139
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Image verticale utilisée sur des médias sociaux pouvant contenir image, vidéo et texte et associée à un profil. Vidéo de 5 à 10 secondes diffusée par Internet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-story · story · French
story · rank #6,139 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,139
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souligner
Nearest frequency peer: souligner (-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 « story »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saurait
saurait
93,865 corpus weight
- servant
servant
93,864 corpus weight
- souligner
souligner
93,863 corpus weight
- story
story
93,862 corpus weight
- successeur
successeur
93,861 corpus weight
- systématiqu…
systématiquement
93,860 corpus weight
What this shows « story » 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 | story |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sto.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « story »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around story (IPA \sto.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,139 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for story, with forms such as "sotry", "sstory", and "storry". 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, "study", "sword", "sto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is story, spelled S-T-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Image verticale utilisée sur des médias sociaux pouvant contenir image, vidéo et texte et associée à un profil. Vidéo de 5 à 10 secondes diffusée par Internet.
- 2Récit utilisateur ; petite fonctionnalité d’un logiciel qui répond à un besoin précis d’un type d’utilisateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how story appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La story publiée sur Instagram le 18 novembre par une influenceuse dénonçant le refus qui lui aurait été fait d’entrer au Louvre à cause de sa tenue est l’occasion de rappeler que cette institution est le musée européen le plus « hastaggé »
Aujourd’hui, il est difficile de trouver un réseau social qui n’a pas encore ses « stories ».
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sotry
- sstory
- storry
- storyy
- stoyr
- stroy
- sttory
- tsory
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of story - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "story", 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).