swing
\swiŋ\
The verdict
“swing” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,602. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,602
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un phénomène de mode né à la fin des années 30 et associé à la musique swing.
Corpus desk
Index FR-swing · swing · French
swing · rank #18,602 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,602
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sursaut
Nearest frequency peer: sursaut (-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 « swing »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sound
sound
81,402 corpus weight
- soutenues
soutenues
81,401 corpus weight
- sursaut
sursaut
81,400 corpus weight
- swing
swing
81,399 corpus weight
- sécurisation
sécurisation
81,398 corpus weight
- tanger
tanger
81,397 corpus weight
What this shows « swing » 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 | swing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \swiŋ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « swing »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around swing (IPA \swiŋ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,602 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qualifie un phénomène de mode né à la fin des années 30 et associé à la musique swing.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for swing, with forms such as "siwng", "sswing", and "swign". 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, "Swiss", "sin", "sig", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is swing, spelled S-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un phénomène de mode né à la fin des années 30 et associé à la musique swing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how swing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis swing, je suis swing Zazou zazou zazouzazoudé yeah ! Je suis swing, oh je suis swing C’est fou c’est fou c’que ça peut m’griser.
Il y avait là beaucoup de petits jeunes gens swing qui sautillaient et badinaient.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- siwng
- sswing
- swign
- swingg
- swinng
- swnig
- swwing
- wsing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of swing - 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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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).