Transistor
\tranˈzɪstoɐ̯\
The verdict
“Transistor” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,580. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,580
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transistor.
Corpus desk
Index FR-transistor · Transistor · French
Transistor · rank #39,580 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,580
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traitaient
Nearest frequency peer: traitaient (-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 « Transistor »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tolérants
tolérants
60,424 corpus weight
- toucherait
toucherait
60,423 corpus weight
- traitaient
traitaient
60,422 corpus weight
- Transistor
Transistor
60,421 corpus weight
- transiter
transiter
60,420 corpus weight
- traumatisés
traumatisés
60,419 corpus weight
What this shows « Transistor » 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 | Transistor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tranˈzɪstoɐ̯\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #39,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Transistor »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Transistor (IPA \tranˈzɪstoɐ̯\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,580 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Transistor.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Transistor, with forms such as "rtansistor", "tarnsistor", and "tranisstor". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "transiter", "transistors", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Transistor, spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-S-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Transistor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Transistor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heutige Mikrochips enthalten tausende oder millionen von Transistoren.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtansistor
- tarnsistor
- tranisstor
- trannsistor
- transisotr
- transisstor
- transistorr
- transistro
- transisttor
- transitsor
- transsistor
- transsitor
- trasnistor
- trnasistor
- trransistor
- ttransistor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Transistor - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Transistor", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).