sadisme

\sa.dism\

/\sa.dism\/ noun

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The verdict

“sadisme” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,602. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,602
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lubricité accompagnée de cruauté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sadisme · sadisme · French

sadisme · rank #42,602 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,602
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH rétroactif

Nearest frequency peer: rétroactif (-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 « sadisme »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sadisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sadisme vs saisie
71% similar
sadisme vs séisme
71% similar
sadisme vs sexisme
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sadisme
PropertyValue
Headwordsadisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.dism\
Letters7
Frequency rank#42,602
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sadisme »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sadismese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rétroactif » (#42,601), « salma » (#42,603), « résiduel » (#42,599). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sadisme » est au #42,602. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around sadisme (IPA \sa.dism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,602 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sadisme, with forms such as "asdisme", "saddisme", and "sadimse". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "saisie", "séisme", "sexisme", and more, 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 sadisme, spelled S-A-D-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lubricité accompagnée de cruauté.
  2. 2
    Goût pervers de faire souffrir.
  3. 3
    Pratique sexuelle dont le but est d’infliger de la douleur, la domination ou l'humiliation, à autrui dans la recherche du plaisir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sadisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il semble pourtant plus logique de mettre dans le même groupe des déviations de but la coprophilie, le sadisme et le frotteurisme, et dans le groupe des déviations d’objet l’homosexualité et l’inceste, comme le fait Clifford Allen.
  2. Un véritable accès de sadisme collectif s’est emparé de ces troupes, sadisme que tous ceux qui ont assisté à des combats de taureaux ont pu constater en petit.

Antonyms

masochisme

This word in other languages

sadism(English)sadismo(Español)Sadismus(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asdisme
  • saddisme
  • sadimse
  • sadisem
  • sadismme
  • sadissme
  • sadsime
  • saidsme
  • sdaisme
  • ssadisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sadisme - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

asdisme2saddisme1sadimse2sadisem2sadismme1sadissme1sadsime2saidsme2
Edit distance from "sadisme"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sadisme"?
"sadisme" is spelled S-A-D-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.dism\.
What does "sadisme" mean?
As a noun, "sadisme" means: Lubricité accompagnée de cruauté.
What words are commonly confused with "sadisme"?
"sadisme" is commonly confused with "saisie", "séisme", "sexisme". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sadisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sadisme" is \sa.dism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sadisme" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sadisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sautoir#42,605schwarz#42,608réglant#42,595scribes#42,610

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Romuald10 variantsressorte10 variantsrelisez10 variantsSweeney10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list