scrupule
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,465
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
scrupule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Doute ou hésitation que l'on éprouve à la peur de mal faire ou d'être importun. Pronounced \skʁy.pyl\. Often confused with scrupules and scrupuleux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scrupule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skʁy.pyl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for scrupule is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \skʁy.pyl\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,465 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for scrupule, with forms such as "csrupule", "sccrupule", and "scrpuule". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "scrupules", "scrupuleux", 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 scrupule, spelled S-C-R-U-P-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Doute ou hésitation que l'on éprouve à la peur de mal faire ou d'être importun.
- 2Grande exactitude à observer la règle, à remplir ses devoirs.
- 3Grande délicatesse en matière de procédés ou de mœurs.
- 4Grande sévérité d’un auteur, d’un artiste dans la correction d’un ouvrage.
- 5Reste de difficulté ; nuage qui reste dans l’esprit après l’éclaircissement d’une question ou d’une affaire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: csrupule,sccrupule,scrpuule,scrrupule,scruplue,scruppule,scrupuel,scrupulle,scruuple,scurpule,srcupule,sscrupule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for scrupule
Misspelling Variants of "scrupule"
Frequency rank: #21,465 in French
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