string
\stʁiŋ\
The verdict
“string” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,746. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,746
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sous-vêtement principalement féminin, consistant en un triangle de tissu couvrant les parties génitales et maintenu par une cordelette, éventuellement recouverte de dentelle, passant dans l’entreja...
Corpus desk
Index FR-string · string · French
string · rank #16,746 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,746
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stadium
Nearest frequency peer: stadium (-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 « string »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soignée
soignée
83,258 corpus weight
- songer
songer
83,257 corpus weight
- stadium
stadium
83,256 corpus weight
- string
string
83,255 corpus weight
- subis
subis
83,254 corpus weight
- substituer
substituer
83,253 corpus weight
What this shows « string » 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 | string |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁiŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « string »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around string (IPA \stʁiŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,746 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sous-vêtement principalement féminin, consistant en un triangle de tissu couvrant les parties génitales et maintenu par une cordelette, éventuellement recouverte de dentelle, passant dans l’entreja...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for string, with forms such as "srting", "sstring", and "stirng". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "strip", "swing", "strong", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is string, spelled S-T-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Sous-vêtement principalement féminin, consistant en un triangle de tissu couvrant les parties génitales et maintenu par une cordelette, éventuellement recouverte de dentelle, passant dans l’entrejambe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how string appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mode du string va triompher cet été sur les plages.
— Si on trouve des photos de Julia Roberts en string, on peut bien trouver des photos de ce rigolo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srting
- sstring
- stirng
- strign
- stringg
- strinng
- strnig
- strring
- sttring
- tsring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of string - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).