swap
\swap\
The verdict
“swap” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,173. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,173
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contrat d'échange de flux financiers entre deux parties.
Corpus desk
Index FR-swap · swap · French
swap · rank #36,173 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,173
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surpassé
Nearest frequency peer: surpassé (-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 « swap »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- supportée
supportée
63,831 corpus weight
- surfeurs
surfeurs
63,830 corpus weight
- surpassé
surpassé
63,829 corpus weight
- swap
swap
63,828 corpus weight
- symboliser
symboliser
63,827 corpus weight
- sèment
sèment
63,826 corpus weight
What this shows « swap » 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 | swap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swap\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « swap »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around swap (IPA \swap\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,173 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 swap, with forms such as "sawp", "sswap", and "swapp". 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, "SWAT", "sweat", "sa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is swap, spelled S-W-A-P.
Definition
- 1Contrat d'échange de flux financiers entre deux parties.
- 2Échange de données entre la mémoire centrale d’un ordinateur et un fichier, utilisé dans le cadre des techniques de mémoire virtuelle.
- 3Installation d’un moteur puissant dans une voiture de série.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how swap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On parle du swap des taux d’intérêts financiers ou des devises. Il est le plus souvent automatisé en fonction de critères établis conjointement à l’avance et permet de préserver un équilibre dans les échanges internationaux.
Pour les caisses régionales du Crédit agricole, le coût des fameux swaps n’a cessé d’augmenter, passant de 158 millions au quatrième trimestre de 2012 à 196 millions au deuxième trimestre de 2016.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sawp
- sswap
- swapp
- swpa
- swwap
- wsap
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of swap - 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 "swap", 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).