string
\stʁiŋ\
The verdict
“string” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #16,746 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #16,746
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
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) |
Where “string” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for string is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \stʁiŋ\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,746 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “string”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-T-R-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \stʁiŋ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “strip” - see the side-by-side comparison. string vs strip
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.