seconde
\sə.ɡɔ̃d\
The verdict
“seconde” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #677. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #677
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de second.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seconde · seconde · French
seconde · rank #677 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #677
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH problèmes
Nearest frequency peer: problèmes (-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 « seconde »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- partout
partout
99,327 corpus weight
- plupart
plupart
99,326 corpus weight
- problèmes
problèmes
99,325 corpus weight
- seconde
seconde
99,324 corpus weight
- valeur
valeur
99,323 corpus weight
- étude
étude
99,322 corpus weight
What this shows « seconde » 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 | seconde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sə.ɡɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « seconde »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around seconde (IPA \sə.ɡɔ̃d\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #677 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de second.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for seconde, with forms such as "esconde", "sceonde", and "secconde". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "sonde", "secoué", "seconds", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is seconde, spelled S-E-C-O-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de second.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how seconde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si une seconde citation est comprise à l’intérieur de la première, chaque ligne de la citation incluse sera précédée d’un guillemet ouvrant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esconde
- sceonde
- secconde
- secnode
- secodne
- secondde
- seconed
- seconnde
- seocnde
- sseconde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seconde - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "seconde", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).