serpente
\sɛʁ.pɑ̃t\
The verdict
“serpente” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,313. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,313
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Serpent femelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serpente · serpente · French
serpente · rank #45,313 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,313
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Seraing
Nearest frequency peer: Seraing (-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 « serpente »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sentimentaux
sentimentaux
54,691 corpus weight
- sepa
sepa
54,690 corpus weight
- Seraing
Seraing
54,689 corpus weight
- serpente
serpente
54,688 corpus weight
- shorty
shorty
54,686 corpus weight
- sick
sick
54,684 corpus weight
What this shows « serpente » 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 | serpente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.pɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « serpente »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around serpente (IPA \sɛʁ.pɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,313 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Serpent femelle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for serpente, with forms such as "esrpente", "seprente", and "serepnte". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "servent", "serrent", "serpents", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 serpente, spelled S-E-R-P-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Serpent femelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how serpente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De sales petites mouches. De sales petites serpentes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrpente
- seprente
- serepnte
- serpenet
- serpennte
- serpentte
- serpetne
- serpnete
- serppente
- serrpente
- srepente
- sserpente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of serpente - 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 "serpente", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).