thug
\tœɡ\
The verdict
“thug” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,229. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,229
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre d’une secte indienne qui pratiquait la strangulation rituelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thug · thug · French
thug · rank #48,229 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,229
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thu
Nearest frequency peer: thu (-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 « thug »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- terreaux
terreaux
51,776 corpus weight
- thons
thons
51,774 corpus weight
- thu
thu
51,773 corpus weight
- thug
thug
51,772 corpus weight
- Tiphaine
Tiphaine
51,771 corpus weight
- tools
tools
51,769 corpus weight
What this shows « thug » 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 | thug |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tœɡ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « thug »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around thug (IPA \tœɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,229 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for thug, with forms such as "htug", "thgu", and "thhug". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "tué", "tou", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is thug, spelled T-H-U-G.
Definition
- 1Membre d’une secte indienne qui pratiquait la strangulation rituelle.
- 2Voyou ; racaille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thug appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et à force de t’casser les couilles avec ses bisous, ses câlins tout ça, elle te transforme : t'étais le dernier des thugs, tu deviens le premier des caniches, laisse tomber ! C'est un truc de ouf. Mon meilleur pote, c’fils de pute, zarma il est tombé. Wesh, du jour au lendemain, on l'a plus revu : […].
J’suis qu’un thug, ouais
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htug
- thgu
- thhug
- thugg
- tthug
- tuhg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thug - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).