schisme
\ʃism\
The verdict
“schisme” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,963. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,963
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Division au sein d’une Église donnant naissance à une nouvelle Église.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schisme · schisme · French
schisme · rank #27,963 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,963
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH secouru
Nearest frequency peer: secouru (+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 « schisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saillie
saillie
72,041 corpus weight
- sainement
sainement
72,040 corpus weight
- schisme
schisme
72,038 corpus weight
- secouru
secouru
72,037 corpus weight
- secousses
secousses
72,036 corpus weight
- sentaient
sentaient
72,035 corpus weight
What this shows « schisme » 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 | schisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃism\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « schisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around schisme (IPA \ʃism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,963 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for schisme, with forms such as "cshisme", "scchisme", and "schhisme". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "séisme", "schiste", "sexisme", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is schisme, spelled S-C-H-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Division au sein d’une Église donnant naissance à une nouvelle Église.
- 2Division analogue dans le domaine de la politique, de la morale, de la littérature, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces querelles de rites et de frontières entretinrent entre les deux hiérarchies ecclésiastiques, celle de Rome et celle de Constantinople, une animosité croissante qui ne fut pas étrangère à la grande rupture que constitua le schisme de 1054.
Séparées depuis le schisme de 1054, l’Église catholique, héritière de l’Église chrétienne d’Occident, et les Églises orthodoxes, issues de l’Église d’Orient, ont entrepris depuis un demi-siècle de se rapprocher, avec des hauts et des bas dans le dialogue.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshisme
- scchisme
- schhisme
- schimse
- schisem
- schismme
- schissme
- schsime
- scihsme
- shcisme
- sschisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schisme - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).