ridiculiser
\ʁi.di.ky.li.ze\
The verdict
“ridiculiser” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,074. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,074
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre ridicule, tourner en ridicule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ridiculiser · ridiculiser · French
ridiculiser · rank #22,074 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,074
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repérés
Nearest frequency peer: repérés (-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 « ridiculiser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reprenait
reprenait
77,930 corpus weight
- repérage
repérage
77,929 corpus weight
- repérés
repérés
77,928 corpus weight
- ridiculiser
ridiculiser
77,927 corpus weight
- rimes
rimes
77,926 corpus weight
- robustes
robustes
77,925 corpus weight
What this shows « ridiculiser » 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 | ridiculiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi.di.ky.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #22,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ridiculiser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around ridiculiser (IPA \ʁi.di.ky.li.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,074 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rendre ridicule, tourner en ridicule.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for ridiculiser, with forms such as "irdiculiser", "rdiiculiser", and "ridciuliser". 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, "ridiculisé", "radicaliser", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ridiculiser, spelled R-I-D-I-C-U-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre ridicule, tourner en ridicule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ridiculiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Flétrissez aussi le charlatanisme de ces pseudo-virtuoses qui ont obtenu des succès apocryphes à New-York ou en Californie, et qui, […], viennent défigurer sur nos grandes scènes lyriques des partitions dont elles ridiculisent la majesté par les exagérations de leur style exotique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irdiculiser
- rdiiculiser
- ridciuliser
- riddiculiser
- ridicculiser
- ridicluiser
- ridicuilser
- ridiculiesr
- ridiculiserr
- ridiculisre
- ridiculisser
- ridiculliser
- ridiculsier
- ridiucliser
- riidculiser
- rridiculiser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ridiculiser - 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).