scruter
\skʁy.te\
The verdict
“scruter” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,891. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,891
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sonder ou examiner profondément ; chercher à pénétrer dans les choses cachées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scruter · scruter · French
scruter · rank #33,891 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,891
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sarcasmes
Nearest frequency peer: sarcasmes (-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 « scruter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- santana
santana
66,113 corpus weight
- Santander
Santander
66,112 corpus weight
- sarcasmes
sarcasmes
66,111 corpus weight
- scruter
scruter
66,110 corpus weight
- Selma
Selma
66,109 corpus weight
- sentirais
sentirais
66,108 corpus weight
What this shows « scruter » 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 | scruter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \skʁy.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « scruter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around scruter (IPA \skʁy.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,891 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 scruter, with forms such as "csruter", "sccruter", and "scrruter". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "scrutin", "siroter", "sauter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is scruter, spelled S-C-R-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sonder ou examiner profondément ; chercher à pénétrer dans les choses cachées.
- 2Surveiller étroitement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scruter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors elle se penchait sur les rapports de vente avec autant d'attention qu'un médecin scrutant la courbe de température d'un grand opéré.
C’est le géologue H. Heinrich, de Hambourg, qui, scrutant au binoculaire les carottes forées dans les sédiments de l’Atlantique nord, a montré dans les années 1990 que les couches formées d’éléments plus grossiers interstratifiés dans les dépôts plus fins devaient provenir des débris arrachés par les glaciers au substrat rocheux des inlandsis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csruter
- sccruter
- scrruter
- scrtuer
- scruetr
- scruterr
- scrutre
- scrutter
- scurter
- srcuter
- sscruter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scruter - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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