autopsie
\ɔ.tɔp.si\
The verdict
“autopsie” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,997. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,997
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inspection de toutes les parties d’un cadavre ; examen de l’état dans lequel elles se trouvent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autopsie · autopsie · French
autopsie · rank #10,997 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,997
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autisme
Nearest frequency peer: autisme (-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 « autopsie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assistants
assistants
89,007 corpus weight
- attrape
attrape
89,006 corpus weight
- autisme
autisme
89,005 corpus weight
- autopsie
autopsie
89,004 corpus weight
- avances
avances
89,003 corpus weight
- barbares
barbares
89,002 corpus weight
What this shows « autopsie » 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 | autopsie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.tɔp.si\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « autopsie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around autopsie (IPA \ɔ.tɔp.si\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,997 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Inspection de toutes les parties d’un cadavre ; examen de l’état dans lequel elles se trouvent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for autopsie, with forms such as "atuopsie", "auotpsie", and "autopise". 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, "autopsies", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is autopsie, spelled A-U-T-O-P-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Inspection de toutes les parties d’un cadavre ; examen de l’état dans lequel elles se trouvent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autopsie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, comme c’était par l’odorat qu’avait été empoisonnée Jeanne de Navarre, c’était le cerveau, seule partie du corps exclue de l’autopsie, qui devait offrir les traces du crime.
Il avait craint que je ne crache tout le morcif pour essayer de sauver ma tête et qu'on ordonne une nouvelle autopsie du corps de son frère ; autopsie qui aurait peut-être fait découvrir le pot aux roses.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuopsie
- auotpsie
- autopise
- autoppsie
- autopsei
- autopssie
- autospie
- autposie
- auttopsie
- uatopsie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autopsie - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).