ossements
\ɔs.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“ossements” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,925. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,925
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ossement : os décharnés des hommes ou des animaux morts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ossements · ossements · French
ossements · rank #19,925 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,925
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obtiens
Nearest frequency peer: obtiens (-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 « ossements »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Niçois
Niçois
80,079 corpus weight
- obtenant
obtenant
80,078 corpus weight
- obtiens
obtiens
80,077 corpus weight
- ossements
ossements
80,076 corpus weight
- pam
pam
80,074 corpus weight
- pandémie
pandémie
80,073 corpus weight
What this shows « ossements » 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 | ossements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔs.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ossements »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ossements (IPA \ɔs.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,925 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ossement : os décharnés des hommes ou des animaux morts.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ossements, with forms such as "osements", "osesments", and "osseemnts". 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, "ornements", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ossements, spelled O-S-S-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ossement : os décharnés des hommes ou des animaux morts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ossements appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis il s'agissait d'anéantir jusqu'au nom, jusqu'au souvenir, jusqu'aux ossements des rois; il s'agissait de rayer de l'histoire quatorze siècles de monarchie.
Des maisons de neige, il ne restait naturellement plus rien; mais les cendres refroidies et les ossements de phoques attestaient encore le passage des Esquimaux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osements
- osesments
- osseemnts
- ossemennts
- ossemenst
- ossementss
- ossementts
- ossemetns
- ossemments
- ossemnets
- ossmeents
- sosements
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ossements - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ossements", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).