sédiments
\se.di.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“sédiments” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,109. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,109
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sédiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sediments · sédiments · French
sédiments · rank #22,109 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,109
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sécuritaires
Nearest frequency peer: sécuritaires (-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 « sédiments »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- subsaharien…
subsaharienne
77,895 corpus weight
- suivaient
suivaient
77,894 corpus weight
- sécuritaires
sécuritaires
77,893 corpus weight
- sédiments
sédiments
77,892 corpus weight
- sélectionnée
sélectionnée
77,891 corpus weight
- sénégalaise
sénégalaise
77,890 corpus weight
What this shows « sédiments » 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 | sédiments |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.di.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sédiments »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around sédiments (IPA \se.di.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,109 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sédiment.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for sédiments, with forms such as "sdéiments", "sediments", and "ssédiments". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "segments", "serments", "sentiments", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sédiments, spelled S-É-D-I-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sédiment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sédiments appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’origine sous les eaux ou à l’interface terre-mer, ces sites ont été découverts enfouis sous plusieurs mètres de sédiments, qui ont progressivement comblé les anciens espaces en eau, déplaçant la ligne de rivage en gagnant sur la mer.
Une partie des sédiments amazoniens repris par le courant des Guyanes s’accumule en crème de vase plus ou moins fluide et forme des bancs larges de 10 à 20 km qui se déplacent le long de la côte ; le reste est surtout en suspension.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sdéiments
- sediments
- ssédiments
- séddiments
- sédiemnts
- sédimennts
- sédimenst
- sédimentss
- sédimentts
- sédimetns
- sédimments
- sédimnets
- sédmients
- séidments
- ésdiments
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sédiments - 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 "sédiments", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).