Scorsese
The verdict
“Scorsese” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #32,592 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #32,592
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nom de famille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Scorsese |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Scorsese” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Scorsese is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #32,592 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Scorsese, with forms such as "csorsese", "sccorsese", and "scoresse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "scores", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Scorsese, spelled S-C-O-R-S-E-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: csorsese,sccorsese,scoresse,scorrsese,scorsees,scorsesse,scorssee,scorssese,scosrese,scrosese,socrsese,sscorsese
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Scorsese - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Scorsese"
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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Using “Scorsese”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-C-O-R-S-E-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “scores” - see the side-by-side comparison. Scorsese vs scores
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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