Wilson
\wil.sɔn\
The verdict
“Wilson” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,912. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,912
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wilson · Wilson · French
Wilson · rank #6,912 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,912
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH what
Nearest frequency peer: what (-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 « Wilson »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- visé
visé
93,092 corpus weight
- volontiers
volontiers
93,091 corpus weight
- what
what
93,090 corpus weight
- Wilson
Wilson
93,089 corpus weight
- xi
xi
93,088 corpus weight
- young
young
93,087 corpus weight
What this shows « Wilson » 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 | Wilson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \wil.sɔn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Wilson »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Wilson (IPA \wil.sɔn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,912 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille anglais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wilson, with forms such as "iwlson", "willson", and "wilosn". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Watson", "wallon", "willow", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Wilson, spelled W-I-L-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wilson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En revanche je goûtais fort peu le jeu de scène de la délicieuse Sophie Marceau qui dans Pygmalion allait jusqu’à fourrailler dans son appendice nasal pendant que Lambert Wilson devait dire des choses de première importance.
Lorsque Dave Gallaher, l’un des quatre sélectionneurs des All Blacks, arrive sous la pluie diluvienne de Wellington le 15 mai 1910, ses trois partenaires co-sélectionneurs, Meredith de Wellington, Wilson de Christchurch et Harris de Dunedin, ont déjà sous les yeux une liste de quatre-vingt-quatre gars qui sont proposés par les seize associations de rugby…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwlson
- willson
- wilosn
- wilsno
- wilsonn
- wilsson
- wislon
- wlison
- wwilson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Wilson - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).