whip
\wip\
The verdict
“whip” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,380. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,380
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans le système parlementaire britannique (Grande-Bretagne, Canada), député qui est chargé du maintien de la discipline de son parti.
Corpus desk
Index FR-whip · whip · French
whip · rank #45,380 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,380
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Werder
Nearest frequency peer: Werder (-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 « whip »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- votaient
votaient
54,625 corpus weight
- Werder
Werder
54,622 corpus weight
- whip
whip
54,621 corpus weight
- Wien
Wien
54,620 corpus weight
- winters
winters
54,618 corpus weight
- Wuhan
Wuhan
54,617 corpus weight
What this shows « whip » 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 | whip |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wip\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « whip »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around whip (IPA \wip\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,380 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 whip, with forms such as "hwip", "whhip", and "whipp". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "wp", "who", "Wii", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is whip, spelled W-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1Dans le système parlementaire britannique (Grande-Bretagne, Canada), député qui est chargé du maintien de la discipline de son parti.
- 2Député remplissant des fonctions équivalentes dans n'importe quelle assemblée législative, notamment dans le système des États-Unis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how whip appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certains ont proposé de rendre ce terme de la langue parlementaire par questeur, parce qu'il existe des questeurs à la Chambre des députés de France. Mais les fonctions de ces questeurs ne ressemblent en rien à celles de nos whips. Nous n'avons pas de questeurs et les Français n'ont pas de whips. Chef de file est aussi inacceptable. Whip est intraduisible.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hwip
- whhip
- whipp
- whpi
- wihp
- wwhip
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of whip - 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).