homosexuel
\ɔ.mo.sɛk.sɥɛl\
The verdict
“homosexuel” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,670. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,670
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’homosexualité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-homosexuel · homosexuel · French
homosexuel · rank #9,670 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,670
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hollandais
Nearest frequency peer: Hollandais (-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 « homosexuel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gardant
gardant
90,334 corpus weight
- greffe
greffe
90,333 corpus weight
- Hollandais
Hollandais
90,332 corpus weight
- homosexuel
homosexuel
90,331 corpus weight
- hp
hp
90,330 corpus weight
- impacts
impacts
90,328 corpus weight
What this shows « homosexuel » 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 | homosexuel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.mo.sɛk.sɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « homosexuel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around homosexuel (IPA \ɔ.mo.sɛk.sɥɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,670 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for homosexuel, with forms such as "hhomosexuel", "hmoosexuel", and "hommosexuel". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "homosexuels", "homosexuelle", "homosexuelles", 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 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 homosexuel, spelled H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’homosexualité.
- 2Qualifie une personne qui est seulement attiré sexuellement envers les individus du même sexe ou du même genre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homosexuel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Astolphe ne peut évidemment avouer que les relations personnelles qui l'ont mis en contact avec la Russie se recrutent dans le cercle étroit de l’aristocratie homosexuelle. Les « chevaliers de la manchette », comme disait Voltaire.
Dans la poésie des années 1860-1870, le recours unique à des rimes isosexuelles, s'accompagne souvent de connotations homosexuelles.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhomosexuel
- hmoosexuel
- hommosexuel
- homoesxuel
- homoseuxel
- homosexeul
- homosexuell
- homosexule
- homosexxuel
- homossexuel
- homosxeuel
- homsoexuel
- hoomsexuel
- ohmosexuel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of homosexuel - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).