sculpter
\skyl.te\
The verdict
“sculpter” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,040
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Façonner, avec le ciseau ou un autre outil, une figure en relief, en pierre, en marbre, en bois, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sculpter · sculpter · French
sculpter · rank #38,040 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,040
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH seing
Nearest frequency peer: seing (+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 « sculpter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saisissante
saisissante
61,964 corpus weight
- satiriques
satiriques
61,963 corpus weight
- sculpter
sculpter
61,961 corpus weight
- seing
seing
61,960 corpus weight
- serfs
serfs
61,959 corpus weight
- SFIO
SFIO
61,958 corpus weight
What this shows « sculpter » 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 | sculpter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \skyl.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sculpter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sculpter (IPA \skyl.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,040 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sculpter, with forms such as "csulpter", "scculpter", and "sclupter". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "sculptés", "sculpture", "sculpteur", and more, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sculpter, spelled S-C-U-L-P-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Façonner, avec le ciseau ou un autre outil, une figure en relief, en pierre, en marbre, en bois, etc.
- 2Embellir le corps par l’exercice physique, la musculation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sculpter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les tailleurs de pierre qui sculptaient les images des cathédrales, il y avait des hommes d’un talent supérieur, qui semblent être demeurés toujours confondus dans la masse des compagnons ; ils ne produisaient pas moins des chefs-d’œuvre.
Quand il fut parvenu au large du Breidifjord, il jeta lui aussi à la mer les piliers sacrés sur lesquels était sculptée l'image de Thor, en faisant le vœu de s'arrêter là où le dieu Thor serait porté par les flots.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csulpter
- scculpter
- sclupter
- scullpter
- sculpetr
- sculppter
- sculpterr
- sculptre
- sculptter
- scultper
- scuplter
- ssculpter
- suclpter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sculpter - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sculpter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).