masochiste
\ma.zɔ.ʃist\
The verdict
“masochiste” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,289
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adepte du masochisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-masochiste · masochiste · French
masochiste · rank #46,289 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,289
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marquinhos
Nearest frequency peer: Marquinhos (-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 « masochiste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Mansfield
Mansfield
53,715 corpus weight
- Marissa
Marissa
53,714 corpus weight
- Marquinhos
Marquinhos
53,713 corpus weight
- masochiste
masochiste
53,712 corpus weight
- Matilda
Matilda
53,711 corpus weight
- mettiez
mettiez
53,709 corpus weight
What this shows « masochiste » 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 | masochiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.zɔ.ʃist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #46,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « masochiste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around masochiste (IPA \ma.zɔ.ʃist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,289 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Adepte du masochisme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for masochiste, with forms such as "amsochiste", "maoschiste", and "mascohiste". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "machiste", "masochisme", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 masochiste, spelled M-A-S-O-C-H-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Adepte du masochisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how masochiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quel masochiste aspirerait d’ailleurs à se désémanciper volontairement ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amsochiste
- maoschiste
- mascohiste
- masocchiste
- masochhiste
- masochiset
- masochisste
- masochistte
- masochitse
- masochsite
- masocihste
- masohciste
- massochiste
- mmasochiste
- msaochiste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of masochiste - 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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).