security

\sə.ˈkjuɹ.ɪ.ˌti\

/\sə.ˈkjuɹ.ɪ.ˌti\/ noun

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The verdict

“security” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,064. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,064
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sécurité, sûreté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-security · security · French

security · rank #18,064 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,064
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH secoué

Nearest frequency peer: secoué (-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 « security »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « security » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

security vs sécurité
75% similar
security vs sécurisé
63% similar
security vs sécurités
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for security
PropertyValue
Headwordsecurity
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sə.ˈkjuɹ.ɪ.ˌti\
Letters8
Frequency rank#18,064
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « security »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.securityse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « secoué » (#18,063), « sereine » (#18,065), « scission » (#18,062). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « security » est au #18,064. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around security (IPA \sə.ˈkjuɹ.ɪ.ˌti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,064 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for security, with forms such as "escurity", "sceurity", and "seccurity". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sécurité", "sécurisé", "sécurités", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is security, spelled S-E-C-U-R-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sécurité, sûreté.
  2. 2
    Ristourne.
  3. 3
    Titre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • escurity
  • sceurity
  • seccurity
  • secruity
  • secuirty
  • securitty
  • securityy
  • securiyt
  • securrity
  • securtiy
  • seucrity
  • ssecurity

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of security - 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.

escurity2sceurity2seccurity1secruity2secuirty2securitty1securityy1securiyt2
Edit distance from "security"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "security"?
"security" is spelled S-E-C-U-R-I-T-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \sə.ˈkjuɹ.ɪ.ˌti\.
What does "security" mean?
As a noun, "security" means: Sécurité, sûreté.
What words are commonly confused with "security"?
"security" is commonly confused with "sécurité", "sécurisé", "sécurités". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "security"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "security" is \sə.ˈkjuɹ.ɪ.ˌti\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "security" come from?
"security" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "security", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

scission#18,062révérend#18,057Stanford#18,073Sullivan#18,076

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list