selfie
\sɛl.fi\
The verdict
“selfie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,736
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autoportrait photographique, publié en général sur un réseau social.
Corpus desk
Index FR-selfie · selfie · French
selfie · rank #16,736 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,736
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sels
Nearest frequency peer: sels (+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 « selfie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Sartre
Sartre
83,269 corpus weight
- selfie
selfie
83,265 corpus weight
- sels
sels
83,264 corpus weight
- serveuse
serveuse
83,263 corpus weight
- signez
signez
83,262 corpus weight
- singulière
singulière
83,261 corpus weight
What this shows « selfie » 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 | selfie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛl.fi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « selfie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around selfie (IPA \sɛl.fi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,736 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for selfie, with forms such as "eslfie", "seflie", and "selfei". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "selle", "serie", "Selim", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 selfie, spelled S-E-L-F-I-E.
Definition
- 1Autoportrait photographique, publié en général sur un réseau social.
- 2Autobiographie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how selfie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, il y a quatre heures, Bey a posté trois photos d’elle. On l’y aperçoit se regardant dans le miroir, les bras posés sur ses cheveux tout courts. Mieux, elle nous offre un selfie — comprenez une photo d’elle prise par elle-même.
Donc, la prochaine fois que vous vous fendez d’un selfie sur Instagram ou d’un avis bien senti sur Facebook, souvenez-vous que votre cervelle préhistorique prend le dessus.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eslfie
- seflie
- selfei
- selffie
- selife
- sellfie
- slefie
- sselfie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of selfie - 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.
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 "selfie", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).