mystère
\mi.stɛʁ\
The verdict
“mystère” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,475. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,475
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Ce qu’une religion a de plus caché, ce qui n’est connu que des initiés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mystere · mystère · French
mystère · rank #3,475 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,475
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mit
Nearest frequency peer: mit (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mystère”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Maria
Maria
96,529 corpus weight
- mit
mit
96,527 corpus weight
- mystère
mystère
96,526 corpus weight
- méchant
méchant
96,525 corpus weight
- nationales
nationales
96,524 corpus weight
- opposé
opposé
96,523 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mystère” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | mystère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.stɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mystère” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mystère (IPA \mi.stɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,475 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mystère, with forms such as "mmystère", "msytère", and "mysstère". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "mystery", "mystères", "master", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 mystère, spelled M-Y-S-T-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ce qu’une religion a de plus caché, ce qui n’est connu que des initiés.
- 2Vérité de foi contenue dans la révélation et qui, sans contredire la raison, la dépasse.
- 3Ce qu’il y a de caché, de secret, d'inconnaissable dans les phénomènes de la nature ; ce qui est inexplicable par la raison humaine.
- 4Ce qu’il y a de caché, de secret dans les affaires humaines.
- 5Les soins, les précautions que l’on prend pour n’être pas entendu, pour n’être pas observé.
- 6Composante du rosaire.
- 7Nom que l’on donnait, au Moyen Âge, à certaines pièces de théâtre, d’inspiration religieuse, dont le sujet était tiré des Écritures ou de la vie des saints.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mystère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alliette est l’homme le plus heureux de la terre ; il ne parle que tarots, cartes, sortilèges, sciences égyptiennes de Thot, mystères isiaques.
On peut considérer que la raison, incapable d’établir la possibilité intrinsèque des mystères révélés, telles que la Trinité, l’Incarnation, l’Eucharistie, la création ex nihilo, peut néanmoins établir qu’ils ne sont pas contradictoires […] Les mystères, étant supra-rationnels, ne sauraient être démontrés ; mais, comme ils ne sont pas pour cela anti-ratio…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmystère
- msytère
- mysstère
- mystere
- mystrèe
- mysttère
- mystèer
- mystèrre
- mysètre
- mytsère
- myystère
- ymstère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mystère - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mystère", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "mystère". Here's where to go from here.
- "mystère" maps to 7 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "mystery". View pair
- 12 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #3,475 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "M" letter cohort. M–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.