sweat
\swit\
The verdict
“sweat” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,281. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,281
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sweat-shirt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sweat · sweat · French
sweat · rank #17,281 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,281
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suprématie
Nearest frequency peer: suprématie (-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 « sweat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- spéculations
spéculations
82,723 corpus weight
- subvenir
subvenir
82,722 corpus weight
- suprématie
suprématie
82,721 corpus weight
- sweat
sweat
82,720 corpus weight
- symphonique
symphonique
82,719 corpus weight
- symétrie
symétrie
82,718 corpus weight
What this shows « sweat » 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 | sweat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \swit\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sweat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around sweat (IPA \swit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,281 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sweat-shirt.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sweat, with forms such as "sewat", "ssweat", and "swaet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sweet", "swift", "set", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sweat, spelled S-W-E-A-T.
Definition
- 1Sweat-shirt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sweat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jed vit s’approcher un type d’une quarantaine d’années, en bas de jogging et sweat à capuche, une casquette de rappeur vissée à l’envers sur la tête, en qui il reconnut avec incrédulité Patrick Forestier, le directeur de la communication de Michelin-France.
Un peu plus loin derrière, parce qu'elles traînaient et marchaient agglutinées, la majorité des filles parlaient chiffons. « Où t'as trouvé ton sweat ? Chez H & M ? Trop beau ! » Et parlaient garçons.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sewat
- ssweat
- swaet
- sweatt
- sweta
- swweat
- wseat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sweat - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).