seize
\sɛz\
The verdict
“seize” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,659
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le nombre cardinal situé après quinze en y ajoutant un, et avant dix-sept, représenté 16 en chiffres arabes, et XVI en chiffres romains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seize · seize · French
seize · rank #6,659 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,659
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sanitaire
Nearest frequency peer: sanitaire (-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 « seize »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- résolu
résolu
93,346 corpus weight
- sanitaire
sanitaire
93,343 corpus weight
- seize
seize
93,342 corpus weight
- sienne
sienne
93,341 corpus weight
- soutenue
soutenue
93,340 corpus weight
- start
start
93,339 corpus weight
What this shows « seize » 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 | seize |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « seize »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around seize (IPA \sɛz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,659 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for seize, with forms such as "esize", "seiez", and "seizze". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sie", "site", "sexe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 seize, spelled S-E-I-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Le nombre cardinal situé après quinze en y ajoutant un, et avant dix-sept, représenté 16 en chiffres arabes, et XVI en chiffres romains.
- 2Seizième.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seize appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En conséquence , on dit simplement une noire vaut deux croches ou quatre doubles-croches, ou huit triples-croches, ou seize quadruples-croches.
Mais mercredi, soit deux jours avant la sortie officielle, la quasi-totalité des seize nouveaux titres était déjà disponible sur le Net.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esize
- seiez
- seizze
- sezie
- sieze
- sseize
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seize - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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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 (6 here; floor ≥5).