Sébastopol
\se.bas.to.pɔl\
The verdict
“Sébastopol” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,167. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,167
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville située dans le sud-ouest de la péninsule de Crimée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sebastopol · Sébastopol · French
Sébastopol · rank #29,167 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,167
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 394,209
- PHOTO-FINISH Syphilis
Nearest frequency peer: Syphilis (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Sébastopol”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- surprenantes
surprenantes
70,837 corpus weight
- symbiose
symbiose
70,836 corpus weight
- Syphilis
Syphilis
70,835 corpus weight
- Sébastopol
Sébastopol
70,834 corpus weight
- tartines
tartines
70,832 corpus weight
- tarée
tarée
70,831 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Sébastopol” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sébastopol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.bas.to.pɔl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sébastopol” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Sébastopol (IPA \se.bas.to.pɔl\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,167 among 394,209 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville située dans le sud-ouest de la péninsule de Crimée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sébastopol, with forms such as "sbéastopol", "sebastopol", and "ssébastopol". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Sébastopol, spelled S-É-B-A-S-T-O-P-O-L.
Definition
- 1Ville située dans le sud-ouest de la péninsule de Crimée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sbéastopol
- sebastopol
- ssébastopol
- séabstopol
- sébasotpol
- sébasstopol
- sébastoopl
- sébastoplo
- sébastopoll
- sébastoppol
- sébastpool
- sébasttopol
- sébatsopol
- sébbastopol
- sébsatopol
- ésbastopol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sébastopol - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sébastopol", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.