twister
\twis.te\
The verdict
“twister” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,988. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,988
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chanter le twist.
Corpus desk
Index FR-twister · twister · French
twister · rank #49,988 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,988
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Turkménistan
Nearest frequency peer: Turkménistan (-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 « twister »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- traquenard
traquenard
50,017 corpus weight
- tresor
tresor
50,016 corpus weight
- Turkménistan
Turkménistan
50,014 corpus weight
- twister
twister
50,013 corpus weight
- télégraphiq…
télégraphique
50,012 corpus weight
- Ubu
Ubu
50,010 corpus weight
What this shows « twister » 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 | twister |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \twis.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « twister »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around twister (IPA \twis.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,988 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for twister, with forms such as "tiwster", "ttwister", and "twisetr". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "twitter", "twist", "triste", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is twister, spelled T-W-I-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Chanter le twist.
- 2Danser le twist.
- 3Détourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how twister appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais qui donc est de taille à pouvoir m'arrêter? L'ombre s'est faite humaine, aujourd'hui c'est l'été, Je twisterais les mots s'il fallait les twister Pour qu'un jour les enfants sachent qui vous étiez
Tous deux passés par des maisons étoilées avant de créer Bo-tannique en association avec Guillaume Rossi, ils proposent une cuisine semi-gastronomique française, twistée par les inspirations rapportées de leur voyage, épices et mélanges de saveurs originaux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tiwster
- ttwister
- twisetr
- twisster
- twisterr
- twistre
- twistter
- twitser
- twsiter
- twwister
- wtister
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of twister - 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 "twister", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).