insecticide
\ɛ̃.sɛk.ti.sid\
The verdict
“insecticide” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,082. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,082
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui détruit les insectes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insecticide · insecticide · French
insecticide · rank #31,082 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #31,082
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inondée
Nearest frequency peer: inondée (-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 « insecticide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- informatif
informatif
68,922 corpus weight
- inonder
inonder
68,921 corpus weight
- inondée
inondée
68,920 corpus weight
- insecticide
insecticide
68,919 corpus weight
- instituant
instituant
68,917 corpus weight
- instruits
instruits
68,916 corpus weight
What this shows « insecticide » 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 | insecticide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sɛk.ti.sid\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #31,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insecticide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around insecticide (IPA \ɛ̃.sɛk.ti.sid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,082 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui détruit les insectes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for insecticide, with forms such as "inescticide", "innsecticide", and "insceticide". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "insecticides", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is insecticide, spelled I-N-S-E-C-T-I-C-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui détruit les insectes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insecticide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’action insecticide du mélange précédent devient beaucoup plus énergique lorsqu’on y ajoute, ainsi que M. Henneguy en a eu l’idée, une certaine quantité d’alcool méthylique ou esprit de bois qui dissout une partie de l’huile lourde.
Quant au lysol, nous avons déjà noté, à plusieurs reprises, ses remarquables propriétés insecticides, en particulier dans nos études sur l’acariose.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inescticide
- innsecticide
- insceticide
- inseccticide
- insecitcide
- insectciide
- insecticcide
- insecticdie
- insecticidde
- insecticied
- insectiicde
- insectticide
- insetcicide
- inssecticide
- isnecticide
- nisecticide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insecticide - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "insecticide", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).