épilepsie
\e.pi.lɛp.si\
The verdict
“épilepsie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,517
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Affection chronique du système nerveux caractérisée par des crises répétées, ordinairement de courte durée, dans lesquelles le malade peut tomber sans connaissance et éprouver des convulsions viole...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épilepsie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pi.lɛp.si\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “épilepsie” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around épilepsie (IPA \e.pi.lɛp.si\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,517 among 40,273 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Affection chronique du système nerveux caractérisée par des crises répétées, ordinairement de courte durée, dans lesquelles le malade peut tomber sans connaissance et éprouver des convulsions viole...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for épilepsie, with forms such as "epilepsie", "péilepsie", and "éiplepsie". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 épilepsie, spelled É-P-I-L-E-P-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Affection chronique du système nerveux caractérisée par des crises répétées, ordinairement de courte durée, dans lesquelles le malade peut tomber sans connaissance et éprouver des convulsions violentes généralisées accompagnées de coma ou bien présenter des manifestations partielles voire des absences.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epilepsie
- péilepsie
- éiplepsie
- épielpsie
- épilepise
- épileppsie
- épilepsei
- épilepssie
- épilespie
- épillepsie
- épilpesie
- épliepsie
- éppilepsie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of épilepsie - 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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Using “épilepsie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-P-I-L-E-P-S-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.pi.lɛp.si\ (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.