street
\stʁit\
The verdict
“street” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,106. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,106
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-street · street · French
street · rank #3,106 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,106
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signature
Nearest frequency peer: signature (-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 « street »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saisons
saisons
96,897 corpus weight
- signature
signature
96,896 corpus weight
- street
street
96,895 corpus weight
- symbole
symbole
96,894 corpus weight
- tension
tension
96,893 corpus weight
- thèse
thèse
96,892 corpus weight
What this shows « street » 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 | street |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « street »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around street (IPA \stʁit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,106 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for street, with forms such as "srteet", "sstreet", and "steret". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "sweet", "Stress", "strict", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 street, spelled S-T-R-E-E-T.
Definition
- 1Rue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how street appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès les premières marches ils rencontrèrent des traces de sang. Au bas du casse-cou, dans la ruelle étroite et sans nom qui redescend dans la street, ils trouvèrent un sanglant et informe pêle-mêle. Le cheval avait été littéralement broyé.
Nous traversâmes plusieurs de ces rues hautes de Saint-Pierre-Port où l’herbe pousse et nous descendîmes une street assez large qui plonge dans un des quatre ou cinq ravins dont la ville est coupée.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srteet
- sstreet
- steret
- streett
- stret
- strete
- strreet
- sttreet
- tsreet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of street - 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 "street", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).