sculpte

\skylt\

/\skylt\/ verb

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The verdict

“sculpte” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,198. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,198
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de sculpter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sculpte · sculpte · French

sculpte · rank #48,198 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,198
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH seals

Nearest frequency peer: seals (+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 « sculpte »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sculpte » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sculpte vs sculptés
75% similar
sculpte vs sculptée
88% similar
sculpte vs sculpter
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sculpte
PropertyValue
Headwordsculpte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\skylt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#48,198
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sculpte »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sculptese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « seals » (#48,199), « savoureuses » (#48,196), « Selim » (#48,200). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sculpte » est au #48,198. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around sculpte (IPA \skylt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,198 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sculpte, with forms such as "csulpte", "scculpte", and "sclupte". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sculptés", "sculptée", "sculpter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sculpte, spelled S-C-U-L-P-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de sculpter.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de sculpter.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de sculpter.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de sculpter.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de sculpter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sculpte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Harry Guzzi peint, sculpte, s’exprime au travers de la matière en contournant avec lyrisme et poésie la source originelle des matériaux.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • csulpte
  • scculpte
  • sclupte
  • scullpte
  • sculpet
  • sculppte
  • sculptte
  • scultpe
  • scuplte
  • ssculpte
  • suclpte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sculpte - 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.

csulpte2scculpte1sclupte2scullpte1sculpet2sculppte1sculptte1scultpe2
Edit distance from "sculpte"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sculpte"?
"sculpte" is spelled S-C-U-L-P-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \skylt\.
What does "sculpte" mean?
As a verb, "sculpte" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de sculpter.
What words are commonly confused with "sculpte"?
"sculpte" is commonly confused with "sculptés", "sculptée", "sculpter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sculpte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sculpte" is \skylt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sculpte" come from?
"sculpte" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sculpte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sachons#48,187tentais#48,224rompues#48,167traçant#48,238

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Tiphaine11 variantsTrévise11 variantsrelatés11 variantsrehaussée11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list