sarcasme
\saʁ.kasm\
The verdict
“sarcasme” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,805
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Raillerie amère et cruelle ; ironie méchante, mordante, acerbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sarcasme · sarcasme · French
sarcasme · rank #25,805 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #25,805
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH révélait
Nearest frequency peer: révélait (-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 « sarcasme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- régulariser
régulariser
74,199 corpus weight
- révolutionn…
révolutionner
74,198 corpus weight
- révélait
révélait
74,197 corpus weight
- sarcasme
sarcasme
74,196 corpus weight
- Savigny
Savigny
74,195 corpus weight
- sceller
sceller
74,194 corpus weight
What this shows « sarcasme » 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 | sarcasme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ.kasm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sarcasme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around sarcasme (IPA \saʁ.kasm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,805 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Raillerie amère et cruelle ; ironie méchante, mordante, acerbe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sarcasme, with forms such as "asrcasme", "sacrasme", and "saracsme". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sarcasmes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 sarcasme, spelled S-A-R-C-A-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Raillerie amère et cruelle ; ironie méchante, mordante, acerbe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sarcasme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a un tour de Fiction, au moyen duquel la pensée ne doit pas être entendue littéralement comme elle est énoncée, mais qui laisse apercevoir le véritable point de vûe en le rendant seulement plus sensible & plus intéressant par la Fiction même. De là naissent l’Hyperbole, la Litote, l’Interrogation, la Dubitation, la Prétérition, la Réticence, l’Interr…
Veut-on avoir la preuve de la parfaite inutilité de tous les livres de morale, de sermons, etc. ? Il n’y a qu’à jeter les yeux sur le préjugé de la noblesse héréditaire. Y a-t-il un travers contre lequel les philosophes, les orateurs, les poètes, aient lancé plus de traits satiriques, qui ait plus exercé les esprits de toute espèce, qui ait fait naître pl…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asrcasme
- sacrasme
- saracsme
- sarcamse
- sarcasem
- sarcasmme
- sarcassme
- sarccasme
- sarcsame
- sarrcasme
- sracasme
- ssarcasme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sarcasme - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).