write
\ɹaɪt\
The verdict
“write” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,107. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,107
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composer, écrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-write · write · French
write · rank #47,107 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,107
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wildcats
Nearest frequency peer: wildcats (-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 « write »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- waller
waller
52,898 corpus weight
- waw
waw
52,897 corpus weight
- wildcats
wildcats
52,896 corpus weight
- write
write
52,894 corpus weight
- Youn
Youn
52,892 corpus weight
- Zinedine
Zinedine
52,891 corpus weight
What this shows « write » 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 | write |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɹaɪt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « write »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around write (IPA \ɹaɪt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #47,107 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Composer, écrire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for write, with forms such as "rwite", "wirte", and "wriet". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "wie", "with", "wait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is write, spelled W-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Composer, écrire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how write appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
What is she writing? Watch her now, How fast her fingers move!
Write a program that implements Euclid's algorithm and uses it to determine the greatest common divisor of two integers entered by the user.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rwite
- wirte
- wriet
- writte
- wrrite
- wrtie
- wwrite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of write - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).