wick
\wɪk\
The verdict
“wick” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,105. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,105
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mèche (d’une bougie).
Corpus desk
Index FR-wick · wick · French
wick · rank #38,105 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,105
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wash
Nearest frequency peer: wash (-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 « wick »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- volutes
volutes
61,899 corpus weight
- vénitienne
vénitienne
61,898 corpus weight
- wash
wash
61,897 corpus weight
- wick
wick
61,896 corpus weight
- wp
wp
61,895 corpus weight
- yao
yao
61,894 corpus weight
What this shows « wick » 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 | wick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɪk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « wick »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around wick (IPA \wɪk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,105 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mèche (d’une bougie).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for wick, with forms such as "iwck", "wcik", and "wicck". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Wii", "win", "wil", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is wick, spelled W-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Mèche (d’une bougie).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwck
- wcik
- wicck
- wickk
- wikc
- wwick
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wick - 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).