UNIX
\y.niks\
The verdict
“UNIX” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,504. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,504
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système d’exploitation multitâche et multi-utilisateur créé en 1969, conceptuellement ouvert et fondé sur une approche par laquelle il offre de nombreux petits outils chacun dotés d’une mission spé...
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Index FR-unix · UNIX · French
UNIX · rank #33,504 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,504
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH téléportation
Nearest frequency peer: téléportation (-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 « UNIX »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Tyr
Tyr
66,500 corpus weight
- téléphérique
téléphérique
66,499 corpus weight
- téléportati…
téléportation
66,498 corpus weight
- UNIX
UNIX
66,497 corpus weight
- usinage
usinage
66,496 corpus weight
- vacuité
vacuité
66,495 corpus weight
What this shows « UNIX » 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 | UNIX |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \y.niks\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « UNIX »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around UNIX (IPA \y.niks\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,504 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Système d’exploitation multitâche et multi-utilisateur créé en 1969, conceptuellement ouvert et fondé sur une approche par laquelle il offre de nombreux petits outils chacun dotés d’une mission spé...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for UNIX, with forms such as "nuix", "uinx", and "unixx". 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, "ux", "uns", "Uno", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is UNIX, spelled U-N-I-X.
Definition
- 1Système d’exploitation multitâche et multi-utilisateur créé en 1969, conceptuellement ouvert et fondé sur une approche par laquelle il offre de nombreux petits outils chacun dotés d’une mission spécifique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuix
- uinx
- unixx
- unnix
- unxi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of UNIX - 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
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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 (5 here; floor ≥5).