things
\θɪŋz\
The verdict
“things” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,290
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affaires, choses, trucs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-things · things · French
things · rank #17,290 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,290
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH technology
Nearest frequency peer: technology (-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 « things »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- taxer
taxer
82,714 corpus weight
- technology
technology
82,712 corpus weight
- things
things
82,711 corpus weight
- timides
timides
82,710 corpus weight
- tin
tin
82,709 corpus weight
- tonneau
tonneau
82,708 corpus weight
What this shows « things » 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 | things |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \θɪŋz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « things »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around things (IPA \θɪŋz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,290 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Affaires, choses, trucs.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for things, with forms such as "htings", "thhings", and "thigns". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "this", "think", "tongs", 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 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 things, spelled T-H-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1Affaires, choses, trucs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htings
- thhings
- thigns
- thinggs
- thingss
- thinngs
- thinsg
- thnigs
- tihngs
- tthings
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of things - 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 "things", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).