possédé
\pɔ.se.de\
The verdict
“possédé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,965. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,965
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un être vivant dominé par une puissance maléfique ou occulte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-possede · possédé · French
possédé · rank #15,965 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,965
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH porn
Nearest frequency peer: porn (-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 « possédé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- payante
payante
84,040 corpus weight
- perruque
perruque
84,039 corpus weight
- plausible
plausible
84,038 corpus weight
- porn
porn
84,037 corpus weight
- possédé
possédé
84,036 corpus weight
- prendrai
prendrai
84,033 corpus weight
What this shows « possédé » 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 | possédé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.se.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « possédé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around possédé (IPA \pɔ.se.de\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,965 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qualifie un être vivant dominé par une puissance maléfique ou occulte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for possédé, with forms such as "opssédé", "possdéé", and "possede". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "postée", "poussée", "posséder", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is possédé, spelled P-O-S-S-É-D-É.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un être vivant dominé par une puissance maléfique ou occulte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how possédé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Père Cipriano de Meo avait exorcisé un jeune homme possédé par le démon
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opssédé
- possdéé
- possede
- posséddé
- possééd
- posédé
- posésdé
- ppossédé
- psosédé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of possédé - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).