topic
\tɔ.pik\
The verdict
“topic” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,609. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,609
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fil de discussion sur un forum internet ; suite de messages consécutifs autour d'un sujet donné regroupés grâce à une interface qui en facilite la lecture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-topic · topic · French
topic · rank #18,609 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,609
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tonalité
Nearest frequency peer: tonalité (-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 « topic »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Thomson
Thomson
81,395 corpus weight
- thorax
thorax
81,394 corpus weight
- tonalité
tonalité
81,393 corpus weight
- topic
topic
81,392 corpus weight
- tracts
tracts
81,391 corpus weight
- traduisent
traduisent
81,390 corpus weight
What this shows « topic » 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 | topic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.pik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « topic »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around topic (IPA \tɔ.pik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,609 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fil de discussion sur un forum internet ; suite de messages consécutifs autour d'un sujet donné regroupés grâce à une interface qui en facilite la lecture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for topic, with forms such as "otpic", "toipc", and "topci". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "tops", "topo", "tori", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is topic, spelled T-O-P-I-C.
Definition
- 1Fil de discussion sur un forum internet ; suite de messages consécutifs autour d'un sujet donné regroupés grâce à une interface qui en facilite la lecture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how topic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout d'abord, je tiens à dire que je sais qu'il y a déjà des topics sur ce sujet mais j'en vois rarement de ce type dans les topics les plus récents, et je voulais en faire un complet, qui puisse résumer un peu tout ce qu'il y a sur le forum.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otpic
- toipc
- topci
- topicc
- toppic
- tpoic
- ttopic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of topic - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).