sultan
\syl.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“sultan” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,082. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,082
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre qu’on donnait à l’empereur des Turcs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sultan · sultan · French
sultan · rank #10,082 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,082
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suggestion
Nearest frequency peer: suggestion (-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 « sultan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sperme
sperme
89,922 corpus weight
- suffrage
suffrage
89,921 corpus weight
- suggestion
suggestion
89,920 corpus weight
- sultan
sultan
89,919 corpus weight
- Suzanne
Suzanne
89,918 corpus weight
- syriens
syriens
89,917 corpus weight
What this shows « sultan » 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 | sultan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syl.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sultan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sultan (IPA \syl.tɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,082 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 sultan, with forms such as "slutan", "ssultan", and "sulatn". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Susan", "Sutton", "stan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sultan, spelled S-U-L-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Titre qu’on donnait à l’empereur des Turcs.
- 2Titre de dignité qui se donne à certains souverains musulmans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sultan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sultan Mahmoud.
Le maréchal de Mac-Mahon au Sénat, c’est une individualité mêlée à d’autres individualités, tandis qu’à la Présidence, il est seul et unique. C’est comme si l’on offrait le poste de sénateur au bach-aga qui assistait à la séance de la Chambre dans la tribune diplomatique. Il répondrait simplement : « Je ne veux pas être sénateur, comme M. Tolain, puisque…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- slutan
- ssultan
- sulatn
- sulltan
- sultann
- sultna
- sulttan
- sutlan
- usltan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sultan - 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 "sultan", 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).