pseudo
\psø.do\
The verdict
“pseudo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,793. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,793
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui feint, qui fait semblant, qui prétend.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pseudo · pseudo · French
pseudo · rank #3,793 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #3,793
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH profonde
Nearest frequency peer: profonde (-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 « pseudo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- producteurs
producteurs
96,211 corpus weight
- profession
profession
96,210 corpus weight
- profonde
profonde
96,209 corpus weight
- pseudo
pseudo
96,208 corpus weight
- recrutement
recrutement
96,207 corpus weight
- religieuses
religieuses
96,206 corpus weight
What this shows « pseudo » 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 | pseudo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \psø.do\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pseudo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pseudo (IPA \psø.do\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,793 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui feint, qui fait semblant, qui prétend.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pseudo, with forms such as "pesudo", "ppseudo", and "pseduo". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pseudos", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pseudo, spelled P-S-E-U-D-O.
Definition
- 1Qui feint, qui fait semblant, qui prétend.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pseudo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chefs d’États …. Par leur apathie, ils contribuent au génocide ouïghour. Jusqu’à quand ces pseudo défenseurs des droits de la personne toléreront-ils l’intolérable ?
Tous les sujets d’actualités y passèrent les uns après les autres : la nouvelle route du littoral, ainsi que les autres projets ruineux de la Région ou du Département ; la pseudo crise du tourisme due aux requins mangeurs de surfeurs…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pesudo
- ppseudo
- pseduo
- pseuddo
- pseuod
- psseudo
- psuedo
- speudo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pseudo - 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 "pseudo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).