surf
\sœʁf\
The verdict
“surf” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,311
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport consistant à glisser sur la mer ou la neige avec une planche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-surf · surf · French
surf · rank #11,311 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,311
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Stéphanie
Nearest frequency peer: Stéphanie (-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 « surf »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sr
sr
88,693 corpus weight
- stocker
stocker
88,692 corpus weight
- Stéphanie
Stéphanie
88,691 corpus weight
- surf
surf
88,690 corpus weight
- survient
survient
88,689 corpus weight
- tendent
tendent
88,688 corpus weight
What this shows « surf » 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 | surf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sœʁf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « surf »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around surf (IPA \sœʁf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,311 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for surf, with forms such as "sruf", "ssurf", and "sufr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sus", "SUV", "suu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is surf, spelled S-U-R-F.
Definition
- 1Sport consistant à glisser sur la mer ou la neige avec une planche.
- 2Planche permettant la pratique de ce sport.
- 3Genre de musique populaire associé à la culture du surf.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut dire que cette multichampionne a le surf dans le sang, car elle a été initiée par son père dès l’âge de 4 ans.
On y pratique le surf, le kitesurf, le bodyboard et le windsurf.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sruf
- ssurf
- sufr
- surff
- surrf
- usrf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surf - 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 "surf", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).