secte
\sɛkt\
The verdict
“secte” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,308. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,308
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de personnes professant une même doctrine religieuse, philosophique ou autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-secte · secte · French
secte · rank #8,308 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,308
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH secrétariat
Nearest frequency peer: secrétariat (-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 « secte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sages
sages
91,695 corpus weight
- secrétariat
secrétariat
91,694 corpus weight
- secte
secte
91,693 corpus weight
- silva
silva
91,692 corpus weight
- single
single
91,691 corpus weight
- soulever
soulever
91,690 corpus weight
What this shows « secte » 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 | secte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛkt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « secte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around secte (IPA \sɛkt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,308 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for secte, with forms such as "escte", "scete", and "seccte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "set", "See", "ste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is secte, spelled S-E-C-T-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de personnes professant une même doctrine religieuse, philosophique ou autre.
- 2Groupe dissident minoritaire, clos sur lui-même et créé en opposition à des pratiques religieuses dominantes.
- 3Groupe religieux ou autre dont la visée est d’exploiter ses adeptes au profit d’un ou plusieurs gourous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how secte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La secte d’Épicure.
La secte des stoïciens.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- escte
- scete
- seccte
- secet
- sectte
- setce
- ssecte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of secte - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "secte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).