strike
\stʁajk\
The verdict
“strike” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,691. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,691
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de faire tomber toutes les quilles en un seul coup au bowling.
Corpus desk
Index FR-strike · strike · French
strike · rank #19,691 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,691
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Starbucks
Nearest frequency peer: Starbucks (-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 « strike »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- souviendra
souviendra
80,313 corpus weight
- spring
spring
80,312 corpus weight
- Starbucks
Starbucks
80,311 corpus weight
- strike
strike
80,310 corpus weight
- Sully
Sully
80,309 corpus weight
- superficiel
superficiel
80,308 corpus weight
What this shows « strike » 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 | strike |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁajk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « strike »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around strike (IPA \stʁajk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,691 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for strike, with forms such as "srtike", "sstrike", and "stirke". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Syrie", "strip", "string", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is strike, spelled S-T-R-I-K-E.
Definition
- 1Fait de faire tomber toutes les quilles en un seul coup au bowling.
- 2Avertissement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how strike appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voilà que sa boule de billard faisait un strike avec toutes mes certitudes.
Je vous montre les différentes possibilités pour retirer un strike sur sa chaîne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtike
- sstrike
- stirke
- striek
- strikke
- strkie
- strrike
- sttrike
- tsrike
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of strike - 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 "strike", 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).