SDIS
The verdict
“SDIS” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,180. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,180
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Service départemental d’incendie et de secours, chargé dans un département d’analyser les risques et d’organiser les services de secours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sdis · SDIS · French
SDIS · rank #44,180 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,180
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scope
Nearest frequency peer: scope (-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 « SDIS »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- scier
scier
55,824 corpus weight
- scinder
scinder
55,823 corpus weight
- scope
scope
55,822 corpus weight
- SDIS
SDIS
55,821 corpus weight
- seigneuriale
seigneuriale
55,819 corpus weight
- sensibilisés
sensibilisés
55,817 corpus weight
What this shows « SDIS » 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 | SDIS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « SDIS »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around SDIS, anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,180 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Service départemental d’incendie et de secours, chargé dans un département d’analyser les risques et d’organiser les services de secours.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for SDIS, with forms such as "dsis", "sddis", and "sdiss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "si", "ss", "ses", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is SDIS, spelled S-D-I-S.
Definition
- 1Service départemental d’incendie et de secours, chargé dans un département d’analyser les risques et d’organiser les services de secours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how SDIS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
 Bezons (Val-d'Oise), un escape game a été installé dans la caserne des sapeurs-pompiers. Une initiative pour célébrer les 50 ans du service départemental d’incendie et de secours (SDIS).
Dans cette recherche, nous nous demandons comment expliquer et favoriser l’implication des sapeurs-pompiers volontaires (SPV) au sein des Services départementaux d’incendie et de secours (SDIS).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dsis
- sddis
- sdiss
- sdsi
- sids
- ssdis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of SDIS - 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.
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 "SDIS", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).