The verdict
“WhatsApp” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,270. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,270
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Application internet de messagerie instantanée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-whatsapp · WhatsApp · French
WhatsApp · rank #16,270 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,270
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vrac
Nearest frequency peer: vrac (-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 « WhatsApp »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- voilée
voilée
83,734 corpus weight
- vrac
vrac
83,732 corpus weight
- WhatsApp
WhatsApp
83,731 corpus weight
- where
where
83,730 corpus weight
- woman
woman
83,729 corpus weight
- XIVe
XIVe
83,728 corpus weight
What this shows « WhatsApp » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « WhatsApp »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around WhatsApp, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,270 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Application internet de messagerie instantanée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for WhatsApp, with forms such as "hwatsapp", "wahtsapp", and "whastapp". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is WhatsApp, spelled W-H-A-T-S-A-P-P.
Definition
- 1Application internet de messagerie instantanée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how WhatsApp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est impossible via FaceTime et WhatsApp, explique Shaghayegh.
Quelques anciens téléchargent WhatsApp pour la première fois, et, en quelques minutes de tapotage, le visiteur du soir intègre la « boucle » de son coin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hwatsapp
- wahtsapp
- whastapp
- whataspp
- whatsap
- whatspap
- whatssapp
- whattsapp
- whhatsapp
- whtasapp
- wwhatsapp
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of WhatsApp - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "WhatsApp", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).