whisky
\wis.ki\
The verdict
“whisky” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,884. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,884
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eau-de-vie d’orge malté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-whisky · whisky · French
whisky · rank #11,884 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #11,884
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH végétale
Nearest frequency peer: végétale (-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 « whisky »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- voice
voice
88,120 corpus weight
- volent
volent
88,119 corpus weight
- végétale
végétale
88,118 corpus weight
- whisky
whisky
88,117 corpus weight
- échelon
échelon
88,115 corpus weight
- écoutent
écoutent
88,114 corpus weight
What this shows « whisky » 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 | whisky |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wis.ki\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « whisky »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around whisky (IPA \wis.ki\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,884 among 549 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for whisky, with forms such as "hwisky", "whhisky", and "whiksy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "whiskey", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is whisky, spelled W-H-I-S-K-Y.
Definition
- 1Eau-de-vie d’orge malté.
- 2Verre de whisky.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how whisky appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On l’apercevait chez Weber, mince et moqueur, penché sur son verre de whisky and soda avec un étincelant œil de biais, observant l’existence, tripotant sa barbiche et crispant ses mains fines, comme s’il allait s’étirer.
La décoration également, raffinée et l’atmosphère y est conviviale autour de cocktails connus et reconnus comme un dry Martini, un daïquiri, une margarita, un bloody-mary, un cuba-libre, une piña-colada…, mais aussi des cocktails sans alcool, un apéritif classique avec une très intéressante carte de whiskies et de champagnes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hwisky
- whhisky
- whiksy
- whiskky
- whiskyy
- whissky
- whisyk
- whsiky
- wihsky
- wwhisky
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of whisky - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).