zapper
\za.pe\
The verdict
“zapper” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,521. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,521
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appuyer sur la télécommande pour syntoniser une autre chaîne télévisuelle, changer rapidement de chaîne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zapper · zapper · French
zapper · rank #33,521 · 7 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,521
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH yuki
Nearest frequency peer: yuki (-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 « zapper »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- XML
XML
66,483 corpus weight
- Yacine
Yacine
66,482 corpus weight
- yuki
yuki
66,481 corpus weight
- zapper
zapper
66,480 corpus weight
- zi
zi
66,479 corpus weight
- éblouissant
éblouissant
66,478 corpus weight
What this shows « zapper » 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 | zapper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \za.pe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « zapper »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around zapper (IPA \za.pe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,521 among 240 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for zapper, with forms such as "azpper", "zapepr", and "zaper". 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, "zappé", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is zapper, spelled Z-A-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Appuyer sur la télécommande pour syntoniser une autre chaîne télévisuelle, changer rapidement de chaîne.
- 2Passer rapidement d'un sujet à l'autre dans une conversation.
- 3Ignorer, oublier, volontairement ou non, quelque chose ou quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zapper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'ai zappé cinq minutes sans trouver une seule émission intéressante.
Mais un immense public était là, invisible, qui avait le pouvoir de zapper. Et de donner, éventuellement, des coups de canne sur la télé.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- azpper
- zapepr
- zaper
- zapperr
- zappre
- zpaper
- zzapper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zapper - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "zapper", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).