stream

/\stʁim\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,916

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

stream is aFrenchnoun. It means: Diffusion en direct d’une émission. Pronounced \stʁim\. Often confused with street and Stress.

Key facts for stream
PropertyValue
Headwordstream
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\stʁim\
Letters6
Frequency rank#13,916
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of stream in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for stream is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \stʁim\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,916 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Diffusion en direct d’une émission.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for stream, with forms such as "srteam", "sstream", and "steram". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "street", "Stress", "sureau", 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 stream, spelled S-T-R-E-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Diffusion en direct d’une émission.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: srteam,sstream,steram,straem,streamm,strema,strream,sttream,tsream

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for stream

Misspelling Variants of "stream"

srteam6sstream7steram6straem6streamm7strema6strream7sttream7
Misspelling Variants of "stream"

Frequency rank: #13,916 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stream"?
"stream" is spelled S-T-R-E-A-M. The IPA pronunciation is \stʁim\.
What does "stream" mean?
As a noun, "stream" means: Diffusion en direct d’une émission.
What words are commonly confused with "stream"?
"stream" is commonly confused with "street", "Stress", "sureau". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "stream"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "stream" is \stʁim\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "stream" come from?
"stream" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.