serpents
\sɛʁ.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“serpents” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,853. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,853
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de serpent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serpents · serpents · French
serpents · rank #11,853 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,853
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH silver
Nearest frequency peer: silver (+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 « serpents »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sanguin
sanguin
88,151 corpus weight
- scores
scores
88,150 corpus weight
- serpents
serpents
88,148 corpus weight
- silver
silver
88,147 corpus weight
- situent
situent
88,146 corpus weight
- sociologue
sociologue
88,145 corpus weight
What this shows « serpents » 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 | serpents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « serpents »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around serpents (IPA \sɛʁ.pɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,853 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de serpent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for serpents, with forms such as "esrpents", "seprents", and "serepnts". 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", "servants", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is serpents, spelled S-E-R-P-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de serpent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how serpents appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, dans la pensée chrétienne, plusieurs serpents jouent un rôle de grande importance.
Elle venait, croissant d’heure en heure, et ses lames, Toutes droites, heurtaient les monts vertigineux, Ou, projetant leur courbe immense au-dessus d’eux, Rejaillissaient d’en bas vers la nuée en flammes, Comme de longs serpents qui déroulent leurs nœuds.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrpents
- seprents
- serepnts
- serpennts
- serpenst
- serpentss
- serpentts
- serpetns
- serpnets
- serppents
- serrpents
- srepents
- sserpents
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of serpents - 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 "serpents", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).