sérieuse
\se.ʁjøz\
The verdict
“sérieuse” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,297
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de sérieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serieuse · sérieuse · French
sérieuse · rank #3,297 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,297
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH syndicat
Nearest frequency peer: syndicat (-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 « sérieuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- supplémenta…
supplémentaires
96,707 corpus weight
- syndicat
syndicat
96,705 corpus weight
- sérieuse
sérieuse
96,704 corpus weight
- terminer
terminer
96,703 corpus weight
- toile
toile
96,702 corpus weight
- tourné
tourné
96,701 corpus weight
What this shows « sérieuse » 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 | sérieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.ʁjøz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sérieuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around sérieuse (IPA \se.ʁjøz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,297 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de sérieux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sérieuse, with forms such as "serieuse", "sréieuse", and "ssérieuse". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sérieux", "serious", "skieuse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sérieuse, spelled S-É-R-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de sérieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sérieuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une sérieuse contre-révolution qui se mijote de l’autre côté, mais qui, malheureusement, possède d’importantes ramifications en France…
Le roi et les privilégiés auraient voulu que les états délibérassent comme en 1614, c’est-à-dire « par ordre ». Les privilégiés auraient eu immanquablement la majorité et les états auraient été incapables d’opérer aucune réforme sérieuse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- serieuse
- sréieuse
- ssérieuse
- séireuse
- séreiuse
- sériesue
- sérieues
- sérieusse
- sériuese
- sérrieuse
- ésrieuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sérieuse - 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 "sérieuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).