secousse
\sə.kus\
The verdict
“secousse” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,179. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,179
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agitation, ébranlement de ce qui est secoué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-secousse · secousse · French
secousse · rank #26,179 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,179
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scrutins
Nearest frequency peer: scrutins (-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 « secousse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sauvera
sauvera
73,825 corpus weight
- scrupuleuse…
scrupuleusement
73,824 corpus weight
- scrutins
scrutins
73,823 corpus weight
- secousse
secousse
73,822 corpus weight
- sentira
sentira
73,820 corpus weight
- seringue
seringue
73,819 corpus weight
What this shows « secousse » 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 | secousse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.kus\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « secousse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around secousse (IPA \sə.kus\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,179 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for secousse, with forms such as "escousse", "sceousse", and "seccousse". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Sousse", "secousses", "secoué", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is secousse, spelled S-E-C-O-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Agitation, ébranlement de ce qui est secoué.
- 2Contraction due à un choc.
- 3Atteinte portée à la santé, à la fortune, au crédit, à l’ordre établi dans un état, etc.
- 4Durée de temps indéterminée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how secousse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant l’aérostat s’abaissait vers la terre, et la nacelle, rasant les inégalités du sol, éprouvait de fortes secousses.
Un violent tremblement de terre venait d’ébranler cette portion du continent américain. De telles secousses devaient certainement être fréquentes dans ce sol volcanique !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- escousse
- sceousse
- seccousse
- secosuse
- secouse
- secouses
- secuosse
- seocusse
- ssecousse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of secousse - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).