cybersécurité
\si.bɛʁ.se.ky.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“cybersécurité” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,306
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - État d’un système d’information qui résiste aux cyberattaques et aux pannes accidentelles survenant dans le cyberespace. La cybersécurité est assurée par la cyberprotection ainsi que, dans le cas d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cybersécurité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.bɛʁ.se.ky.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #29,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cybersécurité” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around cybersécurité (IPA \si.bɛʁ.se.ky.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,306 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État d’un système d’information qui résiste aux cyberattaques et aux pannes accidentelles survenant dans le cyberespace. La cybersécurité est assurée par la cyberprotection ainsi que, dans le cas d...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for cybersécurité, with forms such as "cbyersécurité", "ccybersécurité", and "cybbersécurité". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cybersécurité, spelled C-Y-B-E-R-S-É-C-U-R-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1État d’un système d’information qui résiste aux cyberattaques et aux pannes accidentelles survenant dans le cyberespace. La cybersécurité est assurée par la cyberprotection ainsi que, dans le cas d’un État, par la cyberdéfense.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cbyersécurité
- ccybersécurité
- cybbersécurité
- cyberrsécurité
- cyberscéurité
- cybersecurite
- cyberssécurité
- cyberséccurité
- cybersécruité
- cybersécuirté
- cybersécuritté
- cybersécuriét
- cybersécurrité
- cybersécurtié
- cyberséucrité
- cyberéscurité
- cybesrécurité
- cybresécurité
- cyebrsécurité
- cyybersécurité
- ycbersécurité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cybersécurité - 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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Using “cybersécurité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-Y-B-E-R-S-É-C-U-R-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \si.bɛʁ.se.ky.ʁi.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.