sèchement
\sɛʃ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“sèchement” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,829. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,829
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière sèche, froide, peu agréable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sechement · sèchement · French
sèchement · rank #25,829 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,829
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH superstition
Nearest frequency peer: superstition (-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 « sèchement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sucette
sucette
74,175 corpus weight
- suicidaires
suicidaires
74,174 corpus weight
- superstition
superstition
74,173 corpus weight
- sèchement
sèchement
74,172 corpus weight
- séduite
séduite
74,171 corpus weight
- tabassé
tabassé
74,170 corpus weight
What this shows « sèchement » 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 | sèchement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sɛʃ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sèchement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around sèchement (IPA \sɛʃ.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #25,829 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for sèchement, with forms such as "scèhement", "sechement", and "ssèchement". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sèchent", "seulement", "sacrement", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sèchement, spelled S-È-C-H-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière sèche, froide, peu agréable.
- 2En ayant un style sec, dénué d’agrément, en parlant d’écriture.
- 3Sans souplesse, sans moelleux, en parlant de peinture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sèchement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle commande sèchement les devoirs de la famille et de la cité, comme s'il s'agissait d'agencer des pierres et non d'harmoniser des hommes.
Il ne faut jamais parler sèchement à un Numide.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- scèhement
- sechement
- ssèchement
- sècchement
- sècehment
- sècheemnt
- sèchemennt
- sèchementt
- sèchemetn
- sèchemment
- sèchemnet
- sèchhement
- sèchmeent
- sèhcement
- èschement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sèchement - 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 "sèchement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).