underground
\œn.dœʁ.ɡʁawnd\
The verdict
“underground” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,596. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,596
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Milieu clandestin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-underground · underground · French
underground · rank #20,596 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,596
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH ultimatum
Nearest frequency peer: ultimatum (-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 « underground »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- turbines
turbines
79,408 corpus weight
- turn
turn
79,407 corpus weight
- ultimatum
ultimatum
79,406 corpus weight
- underground
underground
79,405 corpus weight
- ut
ut
79,404 corpus weight
- vacant
vacant
79,403 corpus weight
What this shows « underground » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | underground |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \œn.dœʁ.ɡʁawnd\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #20,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « underground »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around underground (IPA \œn.dœʁ.ɡʁawnd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,596 among 456 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for underground, with forms such as "nuderground", "udnerground", and "undderground". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is underground, spelled U-N-D-E-R-G-R-O-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1Milieu clandestin.
- 2Mouvement qui résiste aux conventions artistiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how underground appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’underground des banlieues parisiennes a assez d'explosif pour faire sauter l’Élysée.
Une des figures les plus connues de ce mouvement était Vladimir Vyssotski, vedette à la frontière entre le star-system officiel et la culture qu’on pourrait qualifier d’underground, qui comprenait entre autres le folklore des prisons et des camps du Goulag dont il s’inspirait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuderground
- udnerground
- undderground
- undegrround
- undergground
- undergorund
- undergronud
- undergroudn
- undergroundd
- undergrounnd
- undergrround
- undergruond
- underrgound
- underrground
- undreground
- unedrground
- unnderground
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of underground - 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 "underground", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).