sceaux
\so\
The verdict
“sceaux” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,131. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,131
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sceau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sceaux · sceaux · French
sceaux · rank #11,131 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,131
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH réveillée
Nearest frequency peer: réveillée (-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 « sceaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réorganisat…
réorganisation
88,873 corpus weight
- réveillée
réveillée
88,871 corpus weight
- sceaux
sceaux
88,870 corpus weight
- sic
sic
88,869 corpus weight
- SMIC
SMIC
88,868 corpus weight
- soucier
soucier
88,867 corpus weight
What this shows « sceaux » 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 | sceaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sceaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around sceaux (IPA \so\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,131 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sceau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sceaux, with forms such as "cseaux", "scaeux", and "scceaux". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "seau", "seaux", "sociaux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sceaux, spelled S-C-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sceau.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cseaux
- scaeux
- scceaux
- sceauxx
- sceaxu
- sceuax
- secaux
- ssceaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sceaux - 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 "sceaux", 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).