scrotum
\skʁɔ.tɔm\
The verdict
“scrotum” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,356. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,356
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enveloppe cutanée des deux testicules faisant partie des bourses testiculaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scrotum · scrotum · French
scrotum · rank #49,356 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,356
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Schreiber
Nearest frequency peer: Schreiber (-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 « scrotum »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- schiappa
schiappa
50,648 corpus weight
- Schmid
Schmid
50,647 corpus weight
- Schreiber
Schreiber
50,646 corpus weight
- scrotum
scrotum
50,645 corpus weight
- seum
seum
50,644 corpus weight
- sexologue
sexologue
50,643 corpus weight
What this shows « scrotum » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scrotum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skʁɔ.tɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « scrotum »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around scrotum (IPA \skʁɔ.tɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,356 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Enveloppe cutanée des deux testicules faisant partie des bourses testiculaires.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for scrotum, with forms such as "csrotum", "sccrotum", and "scortum". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is scrotum, spelled S-C-R-O-T-U-M.
Definition
- 1Enveloppe cutanée des deux testicules faisant partie des bourses testiculaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scrotum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les testicules se trouvent à l’intérieur d’une enveloppe de peau appelée scrotum… Les volailles sont dépourvues de scrotum. Leurs testicules sont à l’intérieur du corps.
Il m’a acheté des chemises et un nouveau pantalon, sans égard au confort de mes testicules ; j’ai le scrotum douillet.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csrotum
- sccrotum
- scortum
- scrotmu
- scrottum
- scrotumm
- scroutm
- scrrotum
- scrtoum
- srcotum
- sscrotum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scrotum - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).