terror
\ˈterə(r)\
The verdict
“terror” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,972. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,972
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terreur, effroi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terror · terror · French
terror · rank #49,972 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,972
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terrifiants
Nearest frequency peer: terrifiants (-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 « terror »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- technocrati…
technocratique
50,032 corpus weight
- terrace
terrace
50,031 corpus weight
- terrifiants
terrifiants
50,030 corpus weight
- terror
terror
50,029 corpus weight
- thermos
thermos
50,028 corpus weight
- Tibétaine
Tibétaine
50,027 corpus weight
What this shows « terror » 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 | terror |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈterə(r)\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « terror »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around terror (IPA \ˈterə(r)\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,972 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Terreur, effroi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for terror, with forms such as "etrror", "teror", and "terorr". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Terry", "terre", "terra", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is terror, spelled T-E-R-R-O-R.
Definition
- 1Terreur, effroi.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrror
- teror
- terorr
- terrorr
- terrro
- treror
- tterror
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of terror - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).