sectes
\sɛkt\
The verdict
“sectes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,570. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,570
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de secte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sectes · sectes · French
sectes · rank #20,570 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,570
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scrupules
Nearest frequency peer: scrupules (-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 « sectes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Scarlett
Scarlett
79,434 corpus weight
- Schumacher
Schumacher
79,433 corpus weight
- scrupules
scrupules
79,432 corpus weight
- sectes
sectes
79,431 corpus weight
- seizième
seizième
79,430 corpus weight
- semelle
semelle
79,429 corpus weight
What this shows « sectes » 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 | sectes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛkt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sectes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sectes (IPA \sɛkt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,570 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de secte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sectes, with forms such as "esctes", "scetes", and "secctes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sets", "sites", "sexes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 sectes, spelled S-E-C-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de secte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esctes
- scetes
- secctes
- secets
- sectess
- sectse
- secttes
- setces
- ssectes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sectes - 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 "sectes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).