sévices

\se.vis\

/\se.vis\/ noun

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The verdict

“sévices” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,392. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,392
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mauvais traitements infligés par une personne ayant autorité à une personne placée sous son autorité, pouvant aller jusqu'aux coups.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sevices · sévices · French

sévices · rank #30,392 · 11 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,392
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sénatoriales

Nearest frequency peer: sénatoriales (-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 « sévices »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sévices » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sévices vs sévissent
56% similar
sévices vs series
57% similar
sévices vs service
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sévices
PropertyValue
Headwordsévices
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\se.vis\
Letters7
Frequency rank#30,392
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sévices »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sévicesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sénatoriales » (#30,391), « Tchétchénie » (#30,393), « séchée » (#30,390). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sévices » est au #30,392. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around sévices (IPA \se.vis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,392 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mauvais traitements infligés par une personne ayant autorité à une personne placée sous son autorité, pouvant aller jusqu'aux coups.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sévices, with forms such as "sevices", "ssévices", and "svéices". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "sévissent", "series", "service", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 sévices, spelled S-É-V-I-C-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mauvais traitements infligés par une personne ayant autorité à une personne placée sous son autorité, pouvant aller jusqu'aux coups.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sévices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cette femme a intenté à son mari une action en divorce pour sévices graves.
  2. Le mot sévices m’avait toujours amusé. Il me plaisait de savoir que les « sévices » désignaient les mauvais traitements infligés à une personne sur laquelle on a autorité. En notre temps de femmes aviatrices et de parthénogenèse, les « sévices » prouvaient encore la suprématie du mâle.

This word in other languages

abuse(English)sevicia(Español)Misshandlung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • sevices
  • ssévices
  • svéices
  • séivces
  • sévcies
  • sévicces
  • sévicess
  • sévicse
  • séviecs
  • sévvices
  • ésvices

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sévices - 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.

sevices1ssévices1svéices2séivces2sévcies2sévicces1sévicess1sévicse2
Edit distance from "sévices"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sévices"?
"sévices" is spelled S-É-V-I-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \se.vis\.
What does "sévices" mean?
As a noun, "sévices" means: Mauvais traitements infligés par une personne ayant autorité à une personne placée sous son autorité, pouvant aller jusqu'aux coups.
What words are commonly confused with "sévices"?
"sévices" is commonly confused with "sévissent", "series", "service". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sévices"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sévices" is \se.vis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sévices" come from?
"sévices" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sévices", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

suffixe#30,384skieurs#30,375servais#30,367vautour#30,418

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

tiraient11 variantsverraient11 variantsvivront11 variantsvéranda11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list