sensibiliser
\sɑ̃.si.bi.li.ze\
The verdict
“sensibiliser” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,663. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,663
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre sensible. Il s’emploie spécialement en termes de photographie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sensibiliser · sensibiliser · French
sensibiliser · rank #11,663 · 18 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,663
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scénariste
Nearest frequency peer: scénariste (-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 « sensibiliser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- résistants
résistants
88,342 corpus weight
- saxons
saxons
88,340 corpus weight
- scénariste
scénariste
88,339 corpus weight
- sensibiliser
sensibiliser
88,338 corpus weight
- Sergio
Sergio
88,336 corpus weight
- Sofia
Sofia
88,335 corpus weight
What this shows « sensibiliser » 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 | sensibiliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.si.bi.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #11,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sensibiliser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around sensibiliser (IPA \sɑ̃.si.bi.li.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,663 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for sensibiliser, with forms such as "esnsibiliser", "senisbiliser", and "sennsibiliser". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sensibilité", "sensibilités", "sensibilisés", and more, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sensibiliser, spelled S-E-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre sensible. Il s’emploie spécialement en termes de photographie.
- 2Rendre quelqu'un ou un groupe, sensible à une chose pour laquelle il ne manifestait pas d'intérêt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sensibiliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sensibiliser une plaque, la rendre sensible à l’action de la lumière.
Il existe deux méthodes pour sensibiliser le papier; l'une permet de le conserver plusieurs jours, l'autre donne un papier plus sensible mais qui jaunit rapidement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esnsibiliser
- senisbiliser
- sennsibiliser
- sensbiiliser
- sensibbiliser
- sensibiilser
- sensibiliesr
- sensibiliserr
- sensibilisre
- sensibilisser
- sensibilliser
- sensibilsier
- sensibliiser
- sensiibliser
- senssibiliser
- sesnibiliser
- snesibiliser
- ssensibiliser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sensibiliser - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).