stupide
\sty.pid\
The verdict
“stupide” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,288. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,288
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est frappé de stupeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stupide · stupide · French
stupide · rank #4,288 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,288
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sons
Nearest frequency peer: sons (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “stupide”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sam
sam
95,716 corpus weight
- smith
smith
95,715 corpus weight
- sons
sons
95,714 corpus weight
- stupide
stupide
95,713 corpus weight
- symptômes
symptômes
95,712 corpus weight
- tenant
tenant
95,710 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “stupide” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | stupide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sty.pid\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “stupide” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around stupide (IPA \sty.pid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,288 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for stupide, with forms such as "sstupide", "stpuide", and "sttupide". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "stupides", "stupidité", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 stupide, spelled S-T-U-P-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est frappé de stupeur.
- 2Qui est hébété, idiot, obtus ; qui est d’un esprit lourd et pesant.
- 3Qualifie les productions d’un esprit lourd et pesant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stupide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est alors que se produisit l’événement qui nous tint stupides. Vers le même lieu il se fit une explosion ou plutôt une éruption, avec le tapage de mille pièces, et un grand nuage cuivré dans lequel éclataient des projectiles innombrables ; tout cela au grand soleil. De telles choses laissent sans pensée ; et l’on se demande si l’on a rêvé […]
À l’en croire, c’était lui qui dansait, qui levait la jambe, qui se dandinait, tellement il se donnait de mal pour communiquer à ces merveilleuses mais stupides créatures un peu du feu sacré dont il les prétendait dépourvues.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sstupide
- stpuide
- sttupide
- stuipde
- stupdie
- stupidde
- stupied
- stuppide
- sutpide
- tsupide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stupide - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "stupide", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "stupide" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "stupides". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,288 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.