mystérieuse
\mis.te.ʁjøz\
The verdict
“mystérieuse” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,046. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,046
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de mystérieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mysterieuse · mystérieuse · French
mystérieuse · rank #9,046 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,046
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH méchante
Nearest frequency peer: méchante (+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 « mystérieuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- metal
metal
90,959 corpus weight
- meurtrier
meurtrier
90,958 corpus weight
- modéré
modéré
90,957 corpus weight
- mystérieuse
mystérieuse
90,955 corpus weight
- méchante
méchante
90,954 corpus weight
- optimiste
optimiste
90,952 corpus weight
What this shows « mystérieuse » 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 | mystérieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mis.te.ʁjøz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mystérieuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around mystérieuse (IPA \mis.te.ʁjøz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,046 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de mystérieux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for mystérieuse, with forms such as "mmystérieuse", "msytérieuse", and "mysstérieuse". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "mystérieux", "mystérieuses", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mystérieuse, spelled M-Y-S-T-É-R-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de mystérieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mystérieuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maintenant, la nuit se refaisait impénétrable, mystérieuse, indifférente aussi au drame qu’elle couvrait de son manteau d’ombre…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmystérieuse
- msytérieuse
- mysstérieuse
- mysterieuse
- mystréieuse
- mysttérieuse
- mystéireuse
- mystéreiuse
- mystériesue
- mystérieues
- mystérieusse
- mystériuese
- mystérrieuse
- mysétrieuse
- mytsérieuse
- myystérieuse
- ymstérieuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mystérieuse - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).