ward
\vaʁt\
The verdict
“ward” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,716
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du prétérit de l’indicatif à la forme active de werden.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ward · ward · French
ward · rank #13,716 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,716
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH want
Nearest frequency peer: want (-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 « ward »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vivantes
vivantes
86,289 corpus weight
- Wagner
Wagner
86,287 corpus weight
- want
want
86,286 corpus weight
- ward
ward
86,285 corpus weight
- Warner
Warner
86,284 corpus weight
- éditorial
éditorial
86,281 corpus weight
What this shows « ward » 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 | ward |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vaʁt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ward »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ward (IPA \vaʁt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,716 among 549 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ward, with forms such as "awrd", "wadr", and "wardd". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "was", "way", "wat", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ward, spelled W-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du prétérit de l’indicatif à la forme active de werden.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de l’indicatif à la forme active de werden.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awrd
- wadr
- wardd
- warrd
- wrad
- wward
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ward - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).