seconds
\sə.ɡɔ̃\
The verdict
“seconds” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,259. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,259
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de second.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seconds · seconds · French
seconds · rank #13,259 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,259
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sea
Nearest frequency peer: sea (-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 « seconds »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Salvador
Salvador
86,745 corpus weight
- Santiago
Santiago
86,744 corpus weight
- sea
sea
86,743 corpus weight
- seconds
seconds
86,742 corpus weight
- segments
segments
86,741 corpus weight
- seo
seo
86,740 corpus weight
What this shows « seconds » 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 | seconds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sə.ɡɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « seconds »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around seconds (IPA \sə.ɡɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,259 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de second.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for seconds, with forms such as "esconds", "sceonds", and "secconds". 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. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "serons", "secours", "secundo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is seconds, spelled S-E-C-O-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de second.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esconds
- sceonds
- secconds
- secnods
- secodns
- secondds
- secondss
- seconnds
- seconsd
- seocnds
- sseconds
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seconds - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).