sédimentaire
\se.di.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“sédimentaire” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,760
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a le caractère d’un sédiment ; qui appartient à un sédiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sedimentaire · sédimentaire · French
sédimentaire · rank #44,760 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,760
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suspectée
Nearest frequency peer: suspectée (-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 « sédimentaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- suppliant
suppliant
55,244 corpus weight
- supportées
supportées
55,243 corpus weight
- suspectée
suspectée
55,242 corpus weight
- sédimentaire
sédimentaire
55,241 corpus weight
- sénéchaussée
sénéchaussée
55,239 corpus weight
- taciturne
taciturne
55,238 corpus weight
What this shows « sédimentaire » 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 | sédimentaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.di.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #44,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sédimentaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around sédimentaire (IPA \se.di.mɑ̃.tɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,760 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a le caractère d’un sédiment ; qui appartient à un sédiment.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for sédimentaire, with forms such as "sdéimentaire", "sedimentaire", and "ssédimentaire". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sédimentaires", "sédentaire", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sédimentaire, spelled S-É-D-I-M-E-N-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a le caractère d’un sédiment ; qui appartient à un sédiment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sédimentaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
…, le littoral,[…], trahissait de la façon la plus évidente une origine plutonienne, bien distincte, en effet, des formations sédimentaires qui caractérisaient les environs du cap.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sdéimentaire
- sedimentaire
- ssédimentaire
- séddimentaire
- sédiemntaire
- sédimenatire
- sédimenntaire
- sédimentaier
- sédimentairre
- sédimentarie
- sédimentiare
- sédimenttaire
- sédimetnaire
- sédimmentaire
- sédimnetaire
- sédmientaire
- séidmentaire
- ésdimentaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sédimentaire - 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 "sédimentaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).