sculpture

\skyl.tyʁ\

/\skyl.tyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“sculpture” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,760
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de sculpter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sculpture · sculpture · French

sculpture · rank #7,760 · 14 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,760
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH satellites

Nearest frequency peer: satellites (-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 « sculpture »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sculpture » 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).

sculpture vs sculptures
90% similar
sculpture vs sculpte
78% similar
sculpture vs sculptée
78% similar

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

Key facts for sculpture
PropertyValue
Headwordsculpture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\skyl.tyʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,760
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sculpture »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sculpturese 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 « satellites » (#7,759), « sentez » (#7,761), « santa » (#7,758). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sculpture » est au #7,760. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around sculpture (IPA \skyl.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,760 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sculpture, with forms such as "csulpture", "scculpture", and "sclupture". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sculptures", "sculpte", "sculptée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sculpture, spelled S-C-U-L-P-T-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Art de sculpter.
  2. 2
    Ouvrage du sculpteur ; statue.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des statues d’un lieu.
  4. 4
    Dessins creusés sur la bande de roulement des pneus afin d’évacuer l’eau et d’éviter l’hydroplanage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La sculpture est comme l’art dramatique, à la fois le plus difficile et le plus facile de tous les arts. Copiez un modèle, et l’œuvre est accomplie ; mais y imprimer une âme, faire un type en représentant un homme ou une femme, c’est le péché de Prométhée.
  2. Malheureusement, la plupart des monuments étaient détruits, la plupart des familles étaient éteintes, de sorte que les fragments les plus curieux de notre antique sculpture, et par conséquent de notre histoire, ont été dispersés, perdus.

This word in other languages

sculpture(English)escultura(Español)Bildhauerei(Deutsch)escultura(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • csulpture
  • scculpture
  • sclupture
  • scullpture
  • sculppture
  • sculptrue
  • sculptture
  • sculptuer
  • sculpturre
  • sculputre
  • scultpure
  • scuplture
  • ssculpture
  • suclpture

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sculpture - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

csulpture2scculpture1sclupture2scullpture1sculppture1sculptrue2sculptture1sculptuer2
Edit distance from "sculpture"

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 "sculpture"?
"sculpture" is spelled S-C-U-L-P-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \skyl.tyʁ\.
What does "sculpture" mean?
As a noun, "sculpture" means: Art de sculpter.
What words are commonly confused with "sculpture"?
"sculpture" is commonly confused with "sculptures", "sculpte", "sculptée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sculpture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sculpture" is \skyl.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sculpture" come from?
"sculpture" 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 "sculpture", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

réguliers#7,756suffrages#7,764reprocher#7,754accélérer#7,778

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

condamner14 variantsconfirmée14 variantsingénierie14 variantsenregistre14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list