syrah
\si.ʁa\
The verdict
“syrah” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,338. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,338
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cépage originaire des côtes du Rhône, mais maintenant utilisée dans le monde entier. Il donne un raisin noir à peau fine et à la pruine abondante. Il est issu du croisement entre la mondeuse blanch...
Corpus desk
Index FR-syrah · syrah · French
syrah · rank #45,338 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,338
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH symbolisé
Nearest frequency peer: symbolisé (-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 « syrah »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- surcharger
surcharger
54,666 corpus weight
- suscita
suscita
54,665 corpus weight
- symbolisé
symbolisé
54,664 corpus weight
- syrah
syrah
54,663 corpus weight
- séchoir
séchoir
54,662 corpus weight
- sélectionnez
sélectionnez
54,661 corpus weight
What this shows « syrah » 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 | syrah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « syrah »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around syrah (IPA \si.ʁa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,338 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for syrah, with forms such as "sryah", "ssyrah", and "syarh". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Syrie", "Syria", "sera", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is syrah, spelled S-Y-R-A-H.
Definition
- 1Cépage originaire des côtes du Rhône, mais maintenant utilisée dans le monde entier. Il donne un raisin noir à peau fine et à la pruine abondante. Il est issu du croisement entre la mondeuse blanche et le dureza (cépage à raisin noir).
- 2Vin tiré des raisins de ce cépage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how syrah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Né d’une âpre syrah, D’un peu de carignan D’une terre solaire, Des mains d’un paysan, C’est avec ce vin là Qu’on dit qu’Ulysse a mis Le cyclope à genoux Et Circée dans son lit…
Premier exportateur de denrées alimentaires du pays, l’Etat du Victoria est aussi l’une des principales terres vinicoles d’Australie, particulièrement réputée pour ses syrah, pinot noir et chardonnay.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sryah
- ssyrah
- syarh
- syrahh
- syrha
- syrrah
- syyrah
- ysrah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of syrah - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).