strong
\ˈstɹɔŋ\
The verdict
“strong” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,174. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,174
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fort, puissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-strong · strong · French
strong · rank #21,174 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,174
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SPVM
Nearest frequency peer: SPVM (-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 « strong »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- smash
smash
78,830 corpus weight
- Sorel
Sorel
78,829 corpus weight
- SPVM
SPVM
78,828 corpus weight
- strong
strong
78,827 corpus weight
- Stuttgart
Stuttgart
78,826 corpus weight
- substantiel…
substantielle
78,825 corpus weight
What this shows « strong » 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 | strong |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈstɹɔŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « strong »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around strong (IPA \ˈstɹɔŋ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,174 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for strong, with forms such as "srtong", "sstrong", and "storng". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "song", "stone", "sting", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 strong, spelled S-T-R-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1Fort, puissant.
- 2Robuste.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtong
- sstrong
- storng
- strnog
- strogn
- strongg
- stronng
- strrong
- sttrong
- tsrong
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of strong - 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).