séquelles
\se.kɛl\
The verdict
“séquelles” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,285. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,285
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suite ou conséquences d’une violence, d’une blessure, d’un accident.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sequelles · séquelles · French
séquelles · rank #17,285 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,285
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH séparant
Nearest frequency peer: séparant (-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 « séquelles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sweat
sweat
82,720 corpus weight
- symphonique
symphonique
82,719 corpus weight
- symétrie
symétrie
82,718 corpus weight
- séparant
séparant
82,717 corpus weight
- séquelles
séquelles
82,716 corpus weight
- taxer
taxer
82,714 corpus weight
What this shows « séquelles » 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 | séquelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.kɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « séquelles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around séquelles (IPA \se.kɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,285 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for séquelles, with forms such as "sequelles", "sqéuelles", and "sséquelles". 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, "sexuelle", "sexuelles", "séquences", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is séquelles, spelled S-É-Q-U-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Suite ou conséquences d’une violence, d’une blessure, d’un accident.
- 2Pluriel de séquelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how séquelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autre part, tous les reliquats post-pneumoniques ou broncho-pneumoniques, toutes les séquelles d’infection pulmonaire, en dehors de la tuberculose (rougeole, grippe, etc., etc.) sont aussi tributaires de cette médication, et on peut dire que le Mont-Dore « désausculte » admirablement ces états locaux qui tendent à la chronicité.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sequelles
- sqéuelles
- sséquelles
- séqeulles
- séqquelles
- séquelels
- séqueles
- séquelless
- séquellse
- séquleles
- séuqelles
- ésquelles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of séquelles - 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 "séquelles", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).