kyste
\kist\
The verdict
“kyste” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,920. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,920
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Formation pathologique, creuse qui renferme des liquides ou autres matières sans que celles-ci ne communiquent avec le reste de l'organisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kyste · kyste · French
kyste · rank #36,920 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,920
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH laffitte
Nearest frequency peer: laffitte (+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 « kyste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Katz
Katz
63,084 corpus weight
- Kawasaki
Kawasaki
63,083 corpus weight
- kyste
kyste
63,081 corpus weight
- laffitte
laffitte
63,080 corpus weight
- laguna
laguna
63,079 corpus weight
- Lair
Lair
63,078 corpus weight
What this shows « kyste » 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 | kyste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kist\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « kyste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around kyste (IPA \kist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,920 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Formation pathologique, creuse qui renferme des liquides ou autres matières sans que celles-ci ne communiquent avec le reste de l'organisme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for kyste, with forms such as "kkyste", "ksyte", and "kyset". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Kate", "Kyle", "kite", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is kyste, spelled K-Y-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Formation pathologique, creuse qui renferme des liquides ou autres matières sans que celles-ci ne communiquent avec le reste de l'organisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kyste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Iᵉʳ Cas, suivi par le docteur Penrose. — Kyste du sein droit sur le point de s’ulcérer ; sein peu volumineux et rempli par le kyste et une masse squirrheuse qui se trouvait plus spécialement au-dessous du mamelon, lequel était lui-même retiré en dedans.
Ces petites tumeurs, bien limitées à leur pourtour, siègent sous le péritoine ou dans l'épaisseur même de la séreuse ; elles contiennent une substance caséiforme, blanc jaunâtre, onctueuse et grasse au toucher, rappelant celle que l'on retrouve dans les kystes dermoïdes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kkyste
- ksyte
- kyset
- kysste
- kystte
- kytse
- kyyste
- ykste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kyste - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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