sermon
\sɛʁ.mɔ̃\
The verdict
“sermon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,406. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,406
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prédication ou discours chrétien, qui est prononcé du haut de la chaire, dans une église, pour instruire et pour exhorter les fidèles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sermon · sermon · French
sermon · rank #19,406 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,406
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH schizophrénie
Nearest frequency peer: schizophrénie (-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 « sermon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sauras
sauras
80,598 corpus weight
- saxonne
saxonne
80,597 corpus weight
- schizophrén…
schizophrénie
80,596 corpus weight
- sermon
sermon
80,595 corpus weight
- sexiste
sexiste
80,594 corpus weight
- slaves
slaves
80,593 corpus weight
What this shows « sermon » 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 | sermon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sermon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sermon (IPA \sɛʁ.mɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,406 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sermon, with forms such as "esrmon", "semron", and "sermmon". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Simon", "seront", "serons", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sermon, spelled S-E-R-M-O-N.
Definition
- 1Prédication ou discours chrétien, qui est prononcé du haut de la chaire, dans une église, pour instruire et pour exhorter les fidèles.
- 2Remontrance ennuyeuse et importune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sermon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La prédication se faisait tantôt en latin pour les clercs, tantôt en français pour le peuple. C’est dans l’homélie, le sermon, que la langue vulgaire a été employée d’abord, et cet emploi remonte jusqu’au IXᵉ siècle […]
John Wesley seul prêcha quarante mille sermons et parcourut deux cent cinquante mille milles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrmon
- semron
- sermmon
- sermno
- sermonn
- seromn
- serrmon
- sremon
- ssermon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sermon - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).