worms
\wɜːms\
The verdict
“worms” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,777. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,777
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de worm.
Corpus desk
Index FR-worms · worms · French
worms · rank #35,777 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,777
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vécurent
Nearest frequency peer: vécurent (-2 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 « worms »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- visionné
visionné
64,228 corpus weight
- vitrées
vitrées
64,227 corpus weight
- vécurent
vécurent
64,226 corpus weight
- worms
worms
64,224 corpus weight
- Zhao
Zhao
64,221 corpus weight
- Zhou
Zhou
64,220 corpus weight
What this shows « worms » 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 | worms |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɜːms\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « worms »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around worms (IPA \wɜːms\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,777 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de worm.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for worms, with forms such as "owrms", "womrs", and "wormms". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "worth", "wars", "work", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is worms, spelled W-O-R-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de worm.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- owrms
- womrs
- wormms
- wormss
- worrms
- worsm
- wroms
- wworms
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of worms - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).