Sumatra
\sy.ma.tʁa\
The verdict
“Sumatra” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,744
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande île indonésienne située sur l’équateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sumatra · Sumatra · French
Sumatra · rank #35,744 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,744
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stockée
Nearest frequency peer: stockée (-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 « Sumatra »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Stiles
Stiles
64,259 corpus weight
- stockée
stockée
64,258 corpus weight
- Sumatra
Sumatra
64,257 corpus weight
- suppléants
suppléants
64,256 corpus weight
- suzerain
suzerain
64,255 corpus weight
- systémiques
systémiques
64,254 corpus weight
What this shows « Sumatra » 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 | Sumatra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sy.ma.tʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sumatra »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Sumatra (IPA \sy.ma.tʁa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,744 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Grande île indonésienne située sur l’équateur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sumatra, with forms such as "smuatra", "ssumatra", and "suamtra". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sutra", "Sinatra", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Sumatra, spelled S-U-M-A-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1Grande île indonésienne située sur l’équateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sumatra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette scène, à la fois cocasse et glaçante, a été capturée par Yan Hidayat, dans l’ouest de Sumatra, en Indonésie.
Comment parler des odyssées souvent anonymes de ces Chinois émigrés en Asie du Sud, de Java aux Philippines, tant ils furent nombreux et précoces ? Dès le début du XVᵉ siècle, la flotte de Zheng He en rencontre dans les îles de Java, de Sumatra et ailleurs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- smuatra
- ssumatra
- suamtra
- sumarta
- sumatar
- sumatrra
- sumattra
- summatra
- sumtara
- usmatra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sumatra - 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
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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).