S5
\ɛs.sɛ̃k\
The verdict
“S5” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,998) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,998
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cinquième vertèbre sacrale (de haut en bas).
Corpus desk
Index FR-s5 · S5 · French
S5 · rank #32,998 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,998
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH rééquilibrer
Nearest frequency peer: rééquilibrer (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « S5 »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- réinstaller
réinstaller
67,005 corpus weight
- rééquilibrer
rééquilibrer
67,004 corpus weight
- S5
S5
67,003 corpus weight
- Saclay
Saclay
67,002 corpus weight
- saharienne
saharienne
67,001 corpus weight
- saletés
saletés
67,000 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « S5 » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | S5 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.sɛ̃k\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #32,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « S5 »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for S5 is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "si", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛs.sɛ̃k\. Frequency #32,998 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Cinquième vertèbre sacrale (de haut en bas).".
S5 has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "si", "sa", and more, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is S5, spelled S-5.
Definition
- 1Cinquième vertèbre sacrale (de haut en bas).
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.