fessée
\fɛ.se\
The verdict
“fessée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,551. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,551
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Châtiment corporel consistant en une série de claques ou de coups administrés sur les fesses à main nue ou à l’aide d’un instrument.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fessee · fessée · French
fessée · rank #23,551 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,551
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH faste
Nearest frequency peer: faste (-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 « fessée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- facturation
facturation
76,453 corpus weight
- farm
farm
76,452 corpus weight
- faste
faste
76,451 corpus weight
- fessée
fessée
76,450 corpus weight
- fia
fia
76,449 corpus weight
- financent
financent
76,448 corpus weight
What this shows « fessée » 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 | fessée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fessée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fessée (IPA \fɛ.se\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,551 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fessée, with forms such as "efssée", "fessee", and "fesseé". 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, "fosse", "fusée", "fesses", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fessée, spelled F-E-S-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Châtiment corporel consistant en une série de claques ou de coups administrés sur les fesses à main nue ou à l’aide d’un instrument.
- 2Défaite sévère et humiliante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fessée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout se découvrit, les vols anciens et le dernier, et elle reçut une fessée d’orties, qui lui couvrit le derrière de camboules.
Il ne faut pas croire, en effet, que l’histoire ait attendu ces derniers temps pour savoir que ce furent de simples polissons qui méritaient la fessée et qui avaient reçu par hasard un coup de fusil.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efssée
- fessee
- fesseé
- fesée
- fesése
- ffessée
- fsesée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fessée - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).