straight
\stʁɛjt\
The verdict
“straight” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,608
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hétérosexuel, avec souvent une connotation orthosexuelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-straight · straight · French
straight · rank #32,608 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,608
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH subdivisions
Nearest frequency peer: subdivisions (+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 « straight »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soutienne
soutienne
67,397 corpus weight
- soutirer
soutirer
67,396 corpus weight
- straight
straight
67,393 corpus weight
- subdivisions
subdivisions
67,392 corpus weight
- supreme
supreme
67,391 corpus weight
- survolé
survolé
67,390 corpus weight
What this shows « straight » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | straight |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \stʁɛjt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « straight »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around straight (IPA \stʁɛjt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,608 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for straight, with forms such as "srtaight", "sstraight", and "staright". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is straight, spelled S-T-R-A-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Hétérosexuel, avec souvent une connotation orthosexuelle.
- 2Ordinaire, sans originalité, banal.
- 3Honnête, franc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how straight appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les autres, ceux qui étaient straight, haïssaient Franklin ou le craignaient confusément, car il fallait compter avec lui et avec les flèches qu’il pouvait lancer dans la vie étroite de notre petite communauté.
Le profil des élues et élus LGBT diffère-t-il de celui de leurs collègues straights et, le cas échéant, en quoi et avec quelles conséquences ?
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtaight
- sstraight
- staright
- stragiht
- straigght
- straighht
- straightt
- straigth
- straihgt
- striaght
- strraight
- sttraight
- tsraight
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of straight - 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 "straight", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).