warning
\waʁ.niŋ\
The verdict
“warning” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,657. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,657
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feux de détresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-warning · warning · French
warning · rank #36,657 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,657
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH warfare
Nearest frequency peer: warfare (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “warning”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- voyagez
voyagez
63,348 corpus weight
- warfare
warfare
63,345 corpus weight
- warning
warning
63,344 corpus weight
- Weill
Weill
63,343 corpus weight
- weir
weir
63,342 corpus weight
- wilder
wilder
63,341 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “warning” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | warning |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \waʁ.niŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “warning” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around warning (IPA \waʁ.niŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,657 among 549 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for warning, with forms such as "awrning", "wanring", and "warinng". 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, "working", "walking", 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 warning, spelled W-A-R-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Feux de détresse.
- 2Avertissement signalant une erreur considérée comme peu grave, renvoyé par un compilateur (lors de la compilation d’un programme), ou par un interpréteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how warning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce boulet, au lieu de se dissimuler derrière sa gova. Il l'avait garée, en warning.
Le compilateur me renvoie encore quelques warnings, il va falloir que je revoie mon code avant de continuer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awrning
- wanring
- warinng
- warnign
- warningg
- warninng
- warnnig
- warnning
- warrning
- wraning
- wwarning
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of warning - 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 "warning", 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).
What to do next
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- "warning" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "working". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #36,657 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "W" letter cohort. W–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.