strass
\stʁas\
The verdict
“strass” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,570. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,570
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verroterie à base de plomb, incolore ou coloré à l’aide d’oxydes métalliques, imitant les pierres précieuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-strass · strass · French
strass · rank #37,570 · 6 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,570
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stipulant
Nearest frequency peer: stipulant (-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 « strass »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stationnés
stationnés
62,434 corpus weight
- stimulants
stimulants
62,433 corpus weight
- stipulant
stipulant
62,432 corpus weight
- strass
strass
62,431 corpus weight
- streamer
streamer
62,430 corpus weight
- stressés
stressés
62,429 corpus weight
What this shows « strass » 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 | strass |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « strass »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around strass (IPA \stʁas\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,570 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Verroterie à base de plomb, incolore ou coloré à l’aide d’oxydes métalliques, imitant les pierres précieuses.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for strass, with forms such as "srtass", "sstrass", and "strrass". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "strat", "Stress", "strate", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is strass, spelled S-T-R-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Verroterie à base de plomb, incolore ou coloré à l’aide d’oxydes métalliques, imitant les pierres précieuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how strass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au moral, la maîtresse était, si vous voulez, du strass; mais, pour les Sauvages, le strass ne vaut-il pas le diamant ?
Les bijoux papillotaient, les rubis et les strass arrêtaient au passage des filées de lumière.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtass
- sstrass
- strrass
- strsas
- sttrass
- tsrass
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of strass - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).